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...Ah, if only one lived in a free, in tellectual society, what powerful extraor dinary things one could write for it! Art's natural ruthlessness is shackled and limited by all sorts of petty considerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Icy Lights | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Ah no, she had come to see that love is a dangerous power. And if it has been vouchsafed to one to taste the joys of love while at the same time complying with the dictates of duty and virtue, one can never be sufficiently grateful to Providence for this rare mercy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bourgeois Wife & Mother | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...Presumably AH Landon, who was reported to have refused a Cabinet post unless the President rejected the Third Term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: A Tradition Ends | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...present holdings in eastern Africa. Britain got sole sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French terminal of the railroad from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, and bombed Aden, British control port opposite Djibouti. His object apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Italy in Arms | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweetwater Swatter | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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