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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 5, 1934 | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...Rasnik, Jugoslavia, peasants told Angjelija Nukitch she was the prettiest girl in all the world. Then spiteful villagers came back from Zagreb with news that they had seen girls who made Angjelija look homely by comparison. Pretty Angjelija wrote a note saying that she did not want to live in a world that held prettier girls, hanged herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 5, 1934 | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...other changes, one of the more interesting is to see Gibbie trying halfback again. There are those who are convinced that Gibbie's mission in life is as a half rather than full. There's not much doubt that be is one of the prettiest runners Harvard has when if comes to sweeping around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASEY SHIFTS LINEUP OF HIS VARSITY TEAM | 10/30/1934 | See Source »

Tight Britches (by John Taintor Foote and Hubert Hayes; Laurence Rivers, Inc., producer) pries into the sexual problems of a handsome young North Carolina mountaineer (Shepperd Strudwick) whom neither God nor the girls can let alone. Off and on he turns down the prettiest wench (Joanna Roos) and the richest heiress in the hills (Virginia Milne) and reiterates his call to preach the Word. Finally the strumpet's father takes up his squirrel rifle and puts a bullet through the novice preacher's heart. Sighs the boy's aunt: "You was too big for your britches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Lazarus Straus & sons entered Macy's through the basement, into which they moved their crockery in 1874. Grandsons of that shrewd Bavarian emigrant are now doing their "very prettiest to buy low and sell cheap"-always for cash only-and telling the world so in such a way that every other big Manhattan store would dearly love to see them gagged. For years their slogan was. "6% less than elsewhere." until harried by the Better Business Bureau to qualify it thus: "We endeavor (though we are not infallible) to sell our merchandise for at least 6% less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Codes for Counters | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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