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Lady Diana has a curious way of making real people seem like Waugh characters,* as she does in the cinematic glimpse of life in the Viceregal Lodge at Simla, where the "brontosaurian" viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, maintained a dur-barlike protocol in the last days of the British raj. The edge was taken off the formality by the sight of His Excellency sidling about the vast building clutching his "catty" (catapult) for shooting crows on the rooftop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Portrait of a Lady | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...Starp it, I tell you!"), entirely virginal. When Teddy surprisingly received a comfortable bequest, Miss Birkenhead beat Miss Blame in the race for Hero Tewler. The seduction, marriage and sexual initiation, cruel but convincing, are brightened only by a dandified best man who neighs a stentorian Hey! before every brontosaurian innuendo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tewleremia | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...content with the rebuff which the University administered last year in connection with the 500th anniversary of Heidelberg and the similar problem of a Harvard representative, the Reich, with Brontosaurian lightness of touch, attempted to worm into Harvard affections by persuading Ernst Hanfstaengel, '09, official pianist to Hitler, to offer a scholarship. This scheme, nipped at a discouragingly early stage in its development, Germany has come across once, more, hoping that the balmy spring days along the Charles will lure the University into a trace in which anything will be possible--even the acceptance of a third bid from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NEIN, DANKE" | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

...finances as the fabulous Mr. Filbert. Yet he is apparently being groomed to succeed Chairman Myron Taylor. And Mr. Taylor, like his predecessor, is not a steel man but a lawyer. The Steel Corp.'s prime requirement is executive talent. If pure essence of executive potency can move brontosaurian Steel Corp., Edward Riley Stettinius will surely move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Up Stettinius | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...years ago. Its capacity was expanded 21% in that period but additions to other companies ranged from 49% for Bethlehem to 890% for Otis Steel. Some of the individual gains were the result of mergers but fact remains that smaller, more flexible units have the advantage over brontosaurian U. S. Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Steel | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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