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...horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving the name of the play from which he earned money to buy it, he is now engaged in removing the 15 lb., a task made difficult because he never exercises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 12, 1935 | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...Australian flagship, H. M. A. S. Australia which recently brought H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester home from his tour Down Under (TIME, April 8). Last week Gloucester was marooned on the Australia while the King's other three sons were with His Majesty on the brass-funneled Victorian royal yacht Victoria and Albert. From her forepeak flew the Leopard of the Lord High Admiral of England, the King. Sixty-four special trains chuffed in with a trampling, eager throng which other means of transport swelled to 250,000. In all 54 females fainted. With the sun blistering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The King and the Sea | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...time he found out that the young feller who tended bar at the saloon where he got his drinks was going to lose his job because he couldn't mix 'em right. Well, my uncle went down there one morning and put his foot on the brass rail and he said: 'Son, I'm agoing to stay here until you learn how to mix these drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Feet to Fire | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...short, swart Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass, tin, linoleum. Some bore the slogan: "Roosevelt for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Skinflints' Slugs | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Gratitude is one of the virtues General Yeh Peng admires most. Dr. Skinner's offices are in the riverfront building of Asiatic Petroleum Co., and to that building went a military procession, including a 50-piece brass band and a car bearing officers of General Yeh Peng's staff. Attached to the hood of the car was a white banner five feet wide, blazoned with characters big as a man's head that every literate Chinese could read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Thanks For Relief | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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