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...accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante's notorious rhetorical self-assurance. At one point in Red, Hot and Blue the magniloquent clown emphatically declares of one turn of events: "It's propitious!" Then a cloud dims the glint in his mad, beady eyes as he adds: "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...with whom he comes in contact. He plays to win, but defeats--and the simon pures will always get their full share--do not upset him unduly. If the team has done its best, he can begin another week after a crushing loss with no regrets, enveloped in no cloud of gloom. And who is there now to say that he is not an able coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Crack! Thrown by the Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Equinoctial Climax | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...truth is a thorny way too, implying an intellectual integrity, a willingness to face facts, and complete freedom from prejudice and passion. It is a high ideal for the future, but much the same as the spirit and purpose that motivated the Puritan forefathers when they chose for their cloud by day and their pillar of fire by night the word "veritas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACING THE FOURTH CENTURY | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

...Only cloud on the autumnal business horizon was that patch which always spooks Industry with the shadow of political uncertainty in a Presidential election year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Summer Smiles | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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