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...hero. Evelyn Laye, his English wife, retains her dignity and quiet charm even through the clowning required of her, and does some expert singing to boot. Adele Dixon, conspicious for the daring of her gowns, manages to capture a respectable French accent, French raciness, and French contempt for British beefsteak...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...voted Socialist four short years ago are very much alive today and most of them have merged with the radicals of the Nazi Party who have always had such slogans as ''Labor Creates Capital." German wits long ago compared radical Nazis to beefsteak: "brown outside, red inside." In the hierarchy of the State one of the most potent radical Nazi leaders is Dr. Ley who keeps on repeating his famed postulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Out Or In? | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...only outcome capable of confounding the Forest Hills authorities more than an all-foreign final was to have Anita Lizana beat touted Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, a Warsaw typist whose powerful forehand had been strengthened by beefsteak breakfasts, for the championship. Miss Lizana had beaten Miss Jedrzejowska twice before this season in Europe, but Miss Lizana prefers ice cream and candy to meat. Consequently it came as a surprise to most spectators when she proceeded to give the sinewy Pole a third trouncing by pounding her slow backhand, catching her flat-footed with deft drop-shots, 6-4, 6-2. Then, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Forest Hills Finalists | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...professional wrestlers have been divided into two groups-East and West. Most of the year, Easts and Wests tour the country giving exhibitions, developing young sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sumo | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

Futurist Marinetti is also deeply concerned with Futurist Food. When he commands his cook to stew a beefsteak in honey she stews beefsteak in honey, and he feels like a Raphael testing new combinations of pigments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Future | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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