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The two best portraits in the show were of Mrs. Peggy Bacon Brook. Very much an artist in her own right, dynamic, sharp-nosed Peggy Bacon is a famed U. S. caricaturist with a sly habit of ridiculing herself more savagely than any of her sitters. Her verse has a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Husband & Wife | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

In the summer of 1932 United Fruit stock was selling for $10.25 a share and Sam Zemurray's stake had shriveled to some $2,000,000. Earnings for the first six months of that year were a miserly 51? a share. So the towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bananas on High | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

One of the two greatest warships in the world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jumping Jacks | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Tiptoeing cautiously ahead of her automobile a hawk-nosed British dowager in a mink coat prowled down the middle of the street. ''Come on, Oscar, come on, we seem to be in the Strand!" cried she.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Big Black Fog | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Jews in Berlin's ghetto were forced to act in Horst Wessel last August by Storm Troopers who gave them "stones" (made of cork), ordered them to stone Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Music by Hanfstaengl | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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