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...course, that old trouper Shirley Temple, age 10, this time a waif from a waylaid wagon train. Her role in the North-West Mounted Police is: 1) making Orderly J. Farrell MacDonald say his prayers and 2) teaching six-foot-two Randolph Scott to waltz, knees akimbo, to the tune of Learning McFadden to Waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...their fingers to camera triggers-and waited (see cut). Nightfall meant the complication of flash bulbs for photographers, a more lurid scene for excited spectators who bought binoculars and made bets on whether Warde would jump. Most spectacular shots were caught by Associated Press Cameraman Harold Harris (Warde, arms akimbo, plummeting past the sixth floor of the hotel), and Acme Cameraman Charles Haacker (Warde toppling from the hotel marquee, police scurrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Slow Suicide | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...State College, where the four strapping dancing demonstrators were students. Had Miss Jewell been present in Los Angeles last week, she would have advised playing on drums for cripples. Wrote she: "Excellent postural results can be derived from cross-legged sitting, trunk erect, arms lifted from the shoulder-elbows akimbo, while the pupil's interest is intrigued with rhythmic patterns to be played on her drum. Heart cases who often feel very 'out of things' because of numerous restrictions may become valuable members of a percussion group and be revitalized by finding something to do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiotherapists | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...have been collecting funds to erect a statue of their agnostic hero, first planning to dedicate it on the centenary of his birth last August. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, commissioned to make the statue, completed in his Texas studio a clay model of the orator, in frock coat with arms akimbo. When cast in bronze the figure will be 12 ft. high, standing upon an 8-ft. marble base. Before that can take place, however, the House must also approve S. J. Res. 21, President Roosevelt sign it and the Robert Ingersoll Monument Association (headed by his daughter Mrs. Maud Ingersoll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Freethinker in Bronze | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...District of Columbia's Supreme Court last week Gaston Bullock Means, national rascal, stood with arms akimbo and a smile on his dimpled face, listening to his third sentence to Federal prison. For duping rich Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the former publisher of the Washington Post and publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby (TIME, May 16), Rascal Means was given ten years imprisonment. For duping her out of $4,000 expense money he got another five years. The terms were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Rascal Sentenced | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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