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...vain have I waited for TIME'S admirable "Cinema" Editor to report and expose Ingagi, Sir Hubert Winstead's African picture with supplied sound effects, which has startled staid Denver by its sensational and supposedly "scientific" shots...
...expected thing. A potent U. S. tycoon (in Rumania about a loan) once complimented H. R. H. upon her beautiful topaze eyes. "Thank you," she said, "I am glad you like them. They are very little use to me."* Courteous but disconcerting, this reply is wholly typical. In vain last week Nicholas, Carol, Marie and His Holiness?the whole Rumanian pack?argued with her and pleaded. She would agree to nothing...
...Spain, his violent, rebellious liberalism untypical of his academic profession. Unamuno looks at life passionately and sees it as a tragedy. Says he, in the prologue to Three Exemplary Novels: "I believe the curve of the hyperbole strives - just so! to join with its asymptote, and strives in vain; and I believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate striving ... he would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton...
This excessively ancient title, now revived, recalls that a "leader of an army" was once a voevod (pronounced vo-ye-vod). In vain last week-Professor Nicolae lorga, once Carol's tutor, warned Parliament that the title came straight out of a Viennese operetta. Unmoved, the deputies and senators rested on their labors, some pointing out that "Grand Voevod" could be translated "Grand Duke...
...White House. When Thomas Jefferson was elected to succeed him, Adams was so enraged that he refused to be present at Jefferson's inauguration. (Only other such case: son John Quincy Adams, fifth U. S. President, would not stay to greet incoming President Andrew Jackson.) Quick-tempered, ambitious, vain, John Adams was never personally popular. Short and fat, he was nicknamed "His Rotundity" by Washington wits...