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Happily the old fellow tumbled from his four-poster at dawn this morning. There's much to be lived today; and, anyway, there's the sunrise to be seen. That reminds the Vagabond that some of his friends have advised him now that winter is coming he had better move from his old Tower to warmer quarters. The Vagabond is told that one of the Masters has kindly offered him the Tower in his House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/6/1935 | See Source »

...Vagabond lay in his four-poster trying to rationalize himself to sleep. But no. No sooner had the iron tongues silenced and a stillness, of death ran over the Tower than a shuffling noise, like the unsteady steps of an old man, came from the narrow corridor. The door groaned on its hinges and: "Knowest thou the mystery of the moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/30/1935 | See Source »

Last week New York's Police Commissioner Valentine issued a new safety campaign poster. Across the top were the words: A PRICE GREATER THAN WAR. On the left was a battle scene with the legend: "WAR-A. E. F.. 18 Months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blood & Agony | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation-which means they leave out the point. . . . Even a mangled body on a [morgue] slab, waxily portraying the consequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a safety poster would dare depict that in full detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blood & Agony | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...there are times when the luminous patios of the Agua Caliente Hotel, which are used for all exteriors, give the picture the air of an animated resort poster, this impression is corrected by an imperfectly subdued tendency to affront Mexico by portraying it as a country whose people understand English only when they are bribed and whose music exists solely to goad listeners into buying silence. In Caliente is dull only in its more expensive moments. Even Busby Berkeley could not do much with Mexican dance effects that has not already been done and probably the most devastating thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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