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But at times even Homer nods, and according to the newspaper accounts (if you will look them up) and my own recollection as an eyewitness close at hand, it was not the daughter but rather the wife of President Roosevelt of that day who christened the Kaiser's sailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Playwright Black begins her tender drama with the children's party, during which Martin evidences his desire to ''spy'' on grownups. In the next scene, pitched 20 years into the future, Martin gets his wish. During a weekend party given by his now adult companions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

Mr. Pecora's delving into the accounts of the Chase National Bank has revealed among other things that Cuba's Machado, while a good dummy in his way, charged rather steeply for his services. The loans and advances for which he asked and received, were tidy little fortunes in themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/27/1933 | See Source »

There is so little about that love, and yet the little means so much. Keats was but recovered from a first futile infatuation, Fanny Brawne was just eighteen. Her blonde and statuesque beauty jarred harshly with her fondness for a ready retort; her inclination to bandy a flirtatious word with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/11/1933 | See Source »

The doctors, et al. of course will do all they can (which is little enough) to help in the present crisis. Their experimentation really will benefit the future. While in actual fact the epidemic itself, in virulence, incidence, after effects (in this form) or mortality is no more dreadful than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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