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...Lone Wolf has returned for the ast time, apparently, since he has got himself married in this interesting picture about a jewel thief who reforms and marries the intended victim. We are rather glad Melvyn Douglas met Gail Patrick and decided to change his taking ways because there have been so many 'best jewel thiefs in all of Europe" on the screen in the last two years that we were getting rather confused. The butler and valet have come into an increasingly important role in many stores lately and Raymond Walburn justifies his promotion to the rank of valet...

Author: By S. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/28/1936 | See Source »

Grip, the Rat is a story packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words & Woids | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...Union's failure and the failure of another large Cleveland bank, Guardian Trust Co. But Cleveland businessmen raised their eyebrows skeptically over the rash of bank indictments that followed, including one against Guardian Trust's homely, church-loving President James Arthur House. They were ready to listen ast week to the explanations of Messrs. Mutt and Van Sweringen who swore that their deal was a perfectly routine business transaction in which the bonds happened to be bought one week and sold the next. Said Mr. Van Sweringen: "These were open and shut purchases and sales of properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Window Dressers | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) inaugurated a new president ast week. Year ago the students struck, announced emphatically that they did not like the policies (in regard to campus garb and athletics) of President Simon Strousse Baker (TIME, March 30). Small, oldish President Baker resigned. His successor pleased nearly everyone. Rev. Dr. Ralph Cooper Hutchison is tall, dark, one of the youngest college presidents (34) in the U. S. Born in Colorado, he went to Lafayette College (1918), spent seven months in naval aviation, went to Haryard, Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1922. worked for the Presbyterian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: W. & J.'s Hutchison | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...diagnostic error by distinguished Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Berlin Specialist in lung surgery, ast ounded the German Surgical Society last week. He tried to make a joke of the matter, which his colleagues helped out. They like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rent Heart | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

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