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...Roll By," it is the harmless sort of narrative involving no backstage inamoratas or tearful college reunions. According to the film, the greatest difficulties in Kern's life were a ne'er-do-well arranger and his (Kern's) stagestruck daughter. With that casually attended to, the audience can bask in the warmth of some of the finest music America has produced in the popular vein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Till the Clouds Roll By | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...course, as the Union League prophets knew, the undiscriminating sun would shine on all Republicans. The Chicago Tribune's isolationist Robert McCormick would bask in it. But the Democratic sun had warmed the backs of even stranger interlopers. This was one of the unpleasant and confusing results of a two-party system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unmistakable Republican | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...officers of the Fly were rather unhappy about it, but taxes is taxes, and Navy wives wouldn't have gone for the atmosphere. Now the traffic accident as Bow and Mt. Auburn, familiarly known as the Poon, will bask in sunlight, and the view from the Sanctum will be brightened by a "pleasant garden spot, surrounded by a hedge," 50 is still exclusive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tain't Fit for Man or Beat So Rathouses Undergo Axe | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...facts. . . . One's imagination is not broad enough to conjure up a true picture of the horrors of war. We must see and read about it first hand. It will take a crack on the chin to make us stand up and fight. Don't let us bask in the sunshine of victory, nibbling on chocolate-covered communiques of military achievement, while our sons and brothers and husbands are wallowing in the mud and blood of war throughout the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1943 | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...confront the nation" make it imperative to continue him in office. Not a voice was raised in dissent. Four days later the Senate passed the same resolution, also unanimously. Unless dissatisfied palace plotters and the Harlem exiles get together and oust Stenio Vincent by force, he will continue to bask in office until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Five More Years for Stenio | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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