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Anders Gram, Danish farmer, had seven children,, was about to have an eighth. The night he should have been home, business took him to the fair. The children were sent to their grandmother's nearby; all the dreadful night long till the end they were out of it, but some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Child's-Eye-View | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Valuta. "Vladivostok has a population of close to 200,000 half of whom are Chinese, and the city presents a dreadful spectacle with its swarms of ragged, famishing men-Mongols and Slavs both.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caterpillars, Sirens, Valuta | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

In Maestro Giorgio Polacco the Chicago Civic Opera had from 1920 until last year an able musical director. But many a Chicagoan believed that the Company's activities-the long-delayed premiere of Hamilton Forrest's Camille, for example-were hampered by Maestro Polacco's domestic difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vice Presidents for Opera | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

In the second place Pius XI is not only for private property but urged that each workman should acquire a "modest fortune" and that social steps should be taken to ensure this, as well as to stamp out unemployment, "a dreadful scourge.''

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Pius XI in Longhand | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

The next chapter is devoted to "Proverbs" which are the "eternal truths of the theatre" as Mr. Nathan sees them. Here he advances the every sound idea that one reason for the weakness of present day dramatic criticism is in the weakness of the dramatists themselves. Another landing place for...

Author: By H. B., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

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