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Decorously the motion passed with not a single dissenting vote. Ninety-two Deputies abstained, but the 184 affirmative votes were stark handwriting on the world's wall : the largest State Diet in the German Republic had overwhelmingly endorsed repudiation of Reparations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Repudiators | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Borden's grimness lay largely in its precision. It pictured a healthy, happy young man of perhaps 25 years. The stark head line read : 40 YEARS TO GO. Then, to cheer a mortal race to its inevitable fate, Borden's said: "Regular intestinal habits will help him make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 40 Years to Go | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...instructed not to think, to become mental vacuums so that they may feel some rhythmic, primitive urge and move accordingly. The urge may or may not be pretty. Dancer Wigman can make it grimly angular and austere. She is close to 50, but she can fill the stage with stark, driving energy. In her dark moods, emphasized by monotonous offstage drumbeats, she is more impressive than when she feels mellow and pastoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Body's Rich Speech | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...Mannons are a strange lot, proud, rich, a family 200 years old. They hate well, too. Ezra, general and judge, and his son Orin are expected home from the Civil War. One who wants Ezra back is his stark daughter Lavinia (Miss Brady). One who does not want him back, hates him, wishes him in his grave is his wife Christine (Miss Nazimova). Beautiful, full-blown, she has fallen in love with a seaman, Brant. It does not take long to find out that Brant is a Mannon, too. His father was Ezra's uncle, who got a hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greece in New England | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Score--Pennsylvania 5, Harvard 3. Goals--Kullman 3, Anderson, Chang, Dorman, Broadbent, Frame. Referee--R. Howley. Linesmen--Paynton, Crew. Time--Four 22-minute periods. HARVARD 1935 WORCESTER England, g. g., Munez Kingsley, l.f.b. r.f.b., Stark Irving, r.f.b. l.f.b., Sharp McGoodwin, l.h.b. r.h.b., Chrestman Colman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Curtis Fuess, r.h.b. l.h.b., Rocheford Robbins, l.o.f. r.o.f., Barrett Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Trivers Clos, c.f. c.f., Bulkeley Butler, r.i.f. l.i.f., Sherwin Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Appleyard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM DEFEATED BY PENNSYLVANIA 5 TO 2 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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