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...Biblical drama with cheesecloth and false whiskers, they were disappointed. On the Gillespie stage fists flew, guns roared, young lovers embraced, a mortgage was foreclosed, thugs and drunks swore, strikers rioted, a bomb went off and at one point the whole thing seemed about to go up in smoke & flame. The play: Storm-Tossed. Its author: Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, 47, of the Society of Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Storm-Tossed | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

TUDOR GREEN-W. B. Maxwell-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Microcosmic picture of London suburbia, by an oldtime English author (The Devil's Garden, The Guarded Flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...understanding from nature, no, nor from one living soul. Tantalizingly an understanding between Peter and his mother, Peter and a child sweetheart, Peter and the Mennonite patriarch is lead up to, then remorselessly refused, leaving a bitter taste of unreality. Every living being is a flamethrower, a rifle, spurting flame into the souls of all those around him. The war is incidental, a puny manifestation of the searing of souls that is mankind's occupation. But it serves to crystalize the solitariness that is to be the life of Peter Franzman and serves as the hinge on which Friesen swings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/3/1936 | See Source »

...Government-inspired, General Niessel, late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: 'Rewards of Victory | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...voice of Der Führer came out of six loudspeakers: "I hereby declare these Fourth Olympic Winter Games of the year 1936, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, open." In a steel bowl high up above the stadium on one side of the ski-jump, a pale spout of flame from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Games at Garmisch | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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