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And now comes the sad part of the tale. The accidental upsetting of a goblet, and the consequent tinkling of broken glass precipitated violent action. In a black thunder-cloud of wrath descended His Majesty harsh words rasped as lightning flared forth; and the much-taken-aback Commander of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

Danube river steamers coasting downstream from Vienna were jammed last week with Boy Scouts of 37 nations, going to the Fourth World Jamboree of 30,000 Scouts in the former Royal Hunting Preserves 17 miles from Budapest. On one of the steamers, completely unnoticed by 100 U. S. Scouts keen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Fourth Jamboree | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

Because non-Moslems are barred from Mecca during the pilgrim season upon pain of death; because Ibn Saud and his personal followers are so strict that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND OF SAUD: Kingdom Christened | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

In her little room in Queens, New York, 12-year-old Jane Ruby lay ill of pneumonia. Near her bed four newborn spitz puppies squirmed in a box. Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Thriller | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

"Next to food and clothing, the housing of a nation is its most vital problem. . . . The sentiment for home ownership is embedded in the American heart [of] millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments and rented rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home, Sweet Home | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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