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Thus far the King's respiratory system has not shown the House of Windsor's traditional weakness in the chest which made catching cold a mortal danger to Edward VII and George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentlemen, the Kings! | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...which he has appeared, having himself declared "faultless" by Germany's best boxer judges, Dorian von Marienhof made it clear by the time he was 2 that he was the best boxer in Germany. Golden brindle, 60 lb., 23 in. at the shoulder, with white paws and chest, Boxer von Marienhof currently has the run of his chairman's ten-acre grounds, spends his mornings in the office where Fancier Wagner sells shares in him. His first U. S. appearance will be in the Westminster Kennel Club show next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Incorporated Boxer | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Always Torvald Hoyer was the Understander.* At the cry of ''Hep!" he would arch his chest, flex his muscles and allow the rest of the Montrose Six to swarm all over him, stand on his head, festoon themselves from his arms. This went on for years. Playing Switzerland one year, he met and married a Danish toe dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neoterics' Acrobat | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

That January is the month most fatal to British Royalty was the firm belief of Queen Victoria who knew her descendants were "weak in the chest." She died on Jan. 22, 1901 at the great age of 81, having been Queen since she was 18, Empress of India since she was 56, and having celebrated, at 78, her Diamond Jubilee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: King of England | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...compare himself to a great President and, being a good Democrat, he picked Andrew Jackson. The occasion was the Democratic Party's Jackson Day Dinner in Washington. The meal cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: History Repeats | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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