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What Sir John had not anticipated was that his old friend, famed archeologist Professor Tennant, and his beautiful young daughter Lyn would take a fancy to the Hestia and go along as passengers. The professor and the captain liked each other's philosophizing. In mid-Atlantic the Hestia hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tramp Thoreau | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

But John would not be forgotten. He revived. When he returned to the kinfolks to claim his property, they insisted that he was a dead Injun. John was ostracized and he became a hermit. Grimly determined to recover his horses, he took them, one by one, in the darkness of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

God, being bored, has sat down at the table of the world, shuffled the cards, and is now diverting himself with a variety of solitaire called Idiot's Delight. That is the cosmic view as modernized by Robert E. Sherwood, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are made to sit in...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/25/1937 | See Source »

Rustum is bracing his feet in the sirups, holding his bow at arm's length and his fingers taut, as he watches the fight of his shaft. Isfandiyar, pierced in the eye, is sinking forward, clutching at saddle and mane. But both faces are wholly impassive; no movement of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

In the fall of 1904, Russia's Far Eastern campaign against Japan was not going very well. The first Russian Pacific squadron had already had one mauling, and the Russian army was on the defensive in Manchuria. So the Baltic Fleet was given sailing orders for the Pacific. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epic of Defeat | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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