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It developed that the Charles is abnormally muddy at this season, so that a layer of silt became deposited upon their respective costumes. Anxious to remedy the faux pas the young man was quick to suggest they retire to his room, where by means of a forceful stream of water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

El Nahas Pasha is today the Wafd. He inherited it in 1927 from the late great Zaghlul Pasha who founded the party and picked El Nahas Pasha for his lieutenant. In Egypt, as elsewhere, lawyers supply most of the popular leaders and El Nahas Pasha is one of the ablest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Wafd Up | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

I read with much amusement and quite a little regret your graphic and colorful sketch of my old friend J. Duncan Spaeth in a recent issue of your excellent journal [TIME, April 13] Parts of it are fair and true. There can be no doubt that this versatile scholar and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Immature though his sense of generality may be, Playwright Shaw displays an easy, forceful style of writing. Says one of his live soldiers to another: "Kids shouldn't be dead, Charley. That's what they musta figured when the dirt started fallin' in on 'em. . . . Did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

"Passive resistance is not our line; we must use forceful measures", and "our fight against war must be waged (now) in time of peace." "Nor are our personal views enough."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE STRIKERS VOTE UNANIMOUSLY FOR NYEKVALE BILL ON R.O.T.C. | 4/23/1936 | See Source »

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