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...noncombatants. Her singing and dancing is on a par with the entertainment furnished in a good many Harlem resorts. There are only two tunes, "In Missouria" and "Give Me AMan Like That,"which audiences could leave the theatre whistling. But small, dapper Bill Robinson's peerless hoofing and broad smile are worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Flung Huey, the CRIMSON'S peerless prognosticator, predicted late last night that the Cardinals will win today's game at Shibe Park and even up the World Series, one all. The score of today's contest, according to the oriental oracle, will be 3 to 2 with the St. Louis team on the long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. HUEY PREDICTS 3 TO 2 VICTORY FOR CARDS TODAY | 10/2/1930 | See Source »

Like the Tip-Top Library, which for two decades purveyed a weekly heroism of the peerless Merriwell, The Dime Novel will concern itself with the adventures of one character. Aware that juvenile readers of today demand something more salty than prep school pranks and last-minute football victories, Author Patten cast about for a 1930 setting for his hero. The result: "Bob Hunter, or The Boss of the Rum Runners." Because, like Merriwell, Bob Hunter must be of eminently sterling worth, he will be enmeshed in illegal activities against his will, his conscience and his judgment. Many of the episodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hero Business | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...long distance running as no other white men had, etc., etc., etc. Yet had the writer been informed he would have found out that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered 623 mi., 1,230 yd. in six days, the longest distance ever covered by a human being in that period of time, whether he be a Flying Finn or a Red Indian. Thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Grab | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...liberated Rhineland which ended last week (see above) was calculated to ruffle U. S. equanimity. Asked Burgomaster Karl Russel of Coblenz, addressing the Hindenburg banquet: "How could we have endured the 'roughneck' methods of the Americans and the calculated oppression of the French if our peerless Rhine and Moselle wines had not helped us to bear our sad fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Roughnecks | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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