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The reader will note that Sinclair Lewis' mellowness sometimes goes maudlin, that his asides on the renaissance of the stage through college and summer theatre companies are more enthusiastic than thoughtful, that about half his characters are themselves straight out of stock, and that as a novel the education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Work | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

On a hill above England's Salisbury Plain a stuffy general stood at the roadside, watching the 17th Light Battery return from a route march. Mules, guns, gunners. A frail, thoughtful major at the head of the column, a red-faced ungentlemanly subaltern in the rear. The general responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tale of a Tubby | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Much comforted by this profound and philosophical reflection, Dickson withdrew and left me a little thoughtful. It sounded so easy, "if we goes down-." I wondered what it would be like to be torpedoed. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

One night last week the members of the New York Railroad Club sat down to their 67th annual dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. For topflight railroad executives it was a relatively cheery meal. They were still chortling because freight carloadings rose 30% between Sept. 9 and Oct. 21...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Fortnight ago his one remaining mainstay, solid old Pierce Butler, died (TIME, Nov. 27). In silence last week he heard Justice Owen Roberts read the majority decision reaffirming the civil liberties of the U. S. citizen, proclaim the right to pamphleteer without a police license.* The decision presented no new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Alone | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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