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YOUNG ROBERT-George Albee-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). Appealing tale about the hell-raising poetic son of a fabulous San Francisco clan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...cooch dancers.† Moscow does not care about the 700 free meals daily in Manhattan's slums for which Mrs. Davies, who provided such amenities as "second helpings" and small tables at which impoverished families could eat together en famille, became known as "The Lady Bountiful of Hell's Kitchen." It is also immaterial to Bolsheviks that the American Flag Association, impressed by Mrs. Davies' vigor in helping its drive against U. S. crime, asked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to perform the act of dubbing her "The Lady of the Flag." Nor do the Russians care that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Slang, not the weak, evasive variety, but the short, vibrant phrases, bitten off neatly, inseparably linked with a harsh nasal drawl, and dear to every trans-Mississippi heart, such slang will set, many a pair of ears tingling. Frightened men are no longer gravely alarmed; they have the hell scared out of them. Superlatives are no longer the acme of this or that; they are the cat's pajamas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...hell couldn't he drive a mile farther into Boston so we wouldn't have to clean up this -- mess!" remarked an irate fireman who, incidentally, supplied the liquid refreshment to expectant students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE REVEALS LIQUOR TRUCK SMUGGLING BABY CARRIAGES | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

Belated are the heated protests of loyal Southerners anent the picturing of William Tecumseh ("War . . . is all Hell") Sherman on a U. S. postage stamp (TIME, Feb. 22), for no precedent is the Post Office Department setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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