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Wedding Bells. Only fault with this reasoning was that Son Carol refused to play. A year or so of training at Potsdam, a tutor in the person of Professor Nicholas Jorga, a dogged old National Democrat who was against virtually everything the Bratianus stood for-these put unexpected backbone into the young Prince. Mother Marie was too busy hatching plots to notice that Son Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...basic logical fault of the policy assumed as inescapable in Dean Ferguson's memorandum is that it undertakes to postulate present action on the basis of essentially unpredictable future events. Out of an apparent overweening fear of the future, it forges gratuitous shackles for the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highlights of C.U.U.T. Report | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...Alan's seduction ought to sell at least a couple of thousand copies. The preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From a silly romantic, Mrs. Pawle changes to a sinister slut, experimenting shamelessly with Alan's emotions, goading him to a peak of frenzy in which he attempts to commit murder. He is let off with awful humiliation in her husband's diabolical revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...well. But it could not back down on its avowed plan without trading a scapegoat. And so, next morning, Admiral Nomura announced that the ship had been sunk at last, but that there had been one casualty: Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, who said it was all his fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Trade for Trade | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...most specific fault History I finds with commercial tutoring notes is "the general failure to keep abreast of the changes in the reading of the course." In order to check up on whether students are taking adequate notes this year, the course has required its students to hand in their notes for examination and marking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY I MAKES SECOND MOVE ON TUTORING OUTLINES | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

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