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...murder an aspect which caused numerous Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's Son bursting into tears at the tender sentiments of pity penned in "maiden's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blood & Tears | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...Roumania, and Yugo-Slavia. The climate of the Balkan region resembles closely the climate of Boston and it seemed probable that the Balkan strains of such plants as Ivy, Yew, and Box, coming from a climate similar to ours would prove more adsptable here than the more or less tender strains that have already been imported from northern Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Winter Kills 27 Varieties of Plants, Reports Arnold Arboretum | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

...that he looked upon himself not as a policy maker but as an expert who merely put his skill at the service of his country. Last week, however, he quit, simply saying in his letter to the President: "Circumstances have now arisen which make it advisable for me to tender you my resignation." An open secret in Washington was the fact that the "circumstances" were, in substance, the 1936 political campaign. Expert or no expert, he did not wish to stand in the light of one who supported an Administration whose policies he did not approve. President Roosevelt wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Exeunt | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...Baby Benedetto grew older it became obvious that he had very little coffinmaker in him. He roamed the streets, took to dicing and card-sharping at a tender age. While still a schoolboy he became an adept with the girls. The bishop, who took a paternal interest in the lad, rescued him from such scrapes as seducing a nun in her cell, but when he got to grave-robbing Benedetto had to leave town. He turned up in Venice under an assumed name, roistered it gamily with a night-livered crew. One faithless wench got his tongue wagging too freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother's Boy | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Seventh Heaven which Janet Caynor be become the darling of a million ladies. They wanted cuteness in love, they found in for a long time in Charbe Parrell and Janet Gaynor. Then Charlie did a talking picture version of Libom in a role that called for the bluff and tender in a man. His voice was too thin and without nuance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuteness Does Pay | 1/10/1936 | See Source »

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