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Next day all the chief joints closed down. Some 30 small-time gamblers, hauled off to court, whiled away the time in the grand jury anteroom, playing cards.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Innocents | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

"I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice." Thus quipped vice man Samuel Johnson in one of his more lucid moments. According to Dr. Johnson's specifications, the U. T., as a public amusement, has saved the souls of countless Harvard men who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/19/1940 | See Source »

A magician, a pretty, home-loving girl, a threadbare plot--that is the whole of "Eternally Yours". It all hinges about Loretta Young, whose change from historic thrillers to modern nondescript is much for the worse. In this lovodrama, she has to choose between a boring suitor and a crafty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

While the audience in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House waited & waited for the curtain to rise, they whiled away the time by reading in their programs an apologia-by Surrealist Salvador Dali himself-for the surrealist ballet they were about to see:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Krafft-Ebing Follies | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Displaying a dynamic knowledge of baccarat and the higher nuances of poker, the Crimson motor yachtsmen whiled their way to victory over the Mystic launches on the difficult mile course of the Charles yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motor-Boaters Victorious | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

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