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...Capitol office, reads the Congressional Record for him, has been on the House payroll for $208.33 per month as his secretary. On Saturdays they answer the accumulated mail of the week, go calling on Sundays. Politician Rainey- With his shock of white hair, his fine head, his ruddy complexion, his Windsor tie, his heavy crooked pipe Representative Rainey might well be taken for a great British statesman. Yet in political mind and manner he is bound firmly to the U. S. soil. In the House he first (1903) attracted attention by a virulent attack on the late Dr. Harvey Wiley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Race to a Rostrum | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will take me some years to complete. ... In short, I believe young people when outdoors should see something besides advertisements to smoke certain brands of cigarets and to use certain soaps to return that schoolgirl complexion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Complexion: clear, ruddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: First Red Lady | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Salesman & Suite | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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