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On the well-cared-for grounds of the British Embassy in Washington one day last week a gardener noticed a great number of odd insects among the flowers and shrubs. He had never seen any creatures like these in England. They were a dingy brownish black, with spiny forelegs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brood X | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

One dawn last week a few thousand late revelers and early risers stood in the dim streets of Manhattan staring up into a grey-black sky. Across it, her four engines purring smoothly, soared the silvery bulk of the Hindenburg, world's largest dirigible, just in after her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Luftschiff at Lakehurst | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Tall, lanky David Blythe roved from hotel to boarding house, painted local worthies at about $15 or $20 per head. His artistic ability made such a marked impression on one gentleman that, passing Blythe's portrait of an acquaintance staring blankly from a store window, he bowed, doffed his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pittsburgh Legend | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

The excitable Mohammedan had come to believe that Mrs. Ruxton, of whose morals as a waitress he was particularly well aware, was now carrying on with a young lawyer in the Town Clerk's office. Therefore Dr. Ruxton encircled his wife's neck with strong, jealous fingers and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

"Love Before Breakfast" years to be too, too smart. It is one of these pictures that tries conscientiously to be conscience-free. Whenever the sophistication peters out in English, the actors become blase in the approved Parisian style. For example, when Preston Foster invites Carole Lombard into his private office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

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