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...time to become accustomed to such squabbles as last week's. A parallel case in the dramatic award occurred in 1924 when the play jury unanimously selected George Kelly's The Showoff, only to have the general committee give the prize to Hatcher Hughes's Hell-bent for Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Pulitzer Pother | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...them in training. But everyone around the stables knew that largely due to Bazaar's, Mata Hari's and Wise Daughter's successes, among 2-year-olds 1933 had been "a filly year." They also knew that Kentucky's foxiest and most renowned horseman was hell-bent on another victorious drink out of the old Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Edward of Lexington | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...published a news item to the effect that Thomas Taylor, 67, of Prescott, Ariz., retired superintendent of the United Verde Copper Co., before committing suicide, wrote a will leaving $150,000 to his wife and son, and $10,000 to his daughter, Lillian Taylor Briggs "to go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 7, 1934 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...reference to Lillian Taylor Briggs was in error, which TIME greatly regrets. Her father did leave her $10,000 but without any injunction. His bequest to his wife was "enough of money to get her and daughter [a Mrs. D. H. Jones] into Hell as soon as possible. My wife belittled me more than any human being ever did and I hope she and her daughter will pay for it, when they get my money to go to Hell with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 7, 1934 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...Smith, who claims affinity with the cloth . . . suggests that since the heathen are not taking very kindly to the brand of gospel which he espouses (and why should they!?), it might be wise to recall the missionaries of his church from their foreign meddling, reconsign the heathen to hell and concentrate on the salvation of Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1934 | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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