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...spite of a constant blare of publicity, sudden bursts of law-enforcement, there were more U. S. highway deaths in May, June and July 1936, than in the same months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Speed | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Just after noon came the blare of band music and the clatter of hoofs. Down the street rode King Edward, his head almost extinguished under the enormous bearskin of the Grenadier Guards. Behind him clattered his equerry. Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird, and behind him the stolid heir to the throne, the Duke of York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Down Constitution Hill | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

From the opening blare of trumpets (8.20) to the final tear-laden fadeout (11.29) the picture maintains a level of fabulous lavishness which bears aureate witness to the accepted rumor that the Goldwyn boys spent $500,000 an hour on this supreme effort. The saga of Ziegfeld commences at the Chicago World's Fair, where the master is offering the muscles of the mighty Sandow. Even at this early stage in his development "Ziggie" realizes that his main theme is a rhapsody on the theatrical potentialities of the female form. He brings Anna Held to America and makes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 4/15/1936 | See Source »

...intricate alphabetical evolutions between the halves are a major feature of the afternoon for the average spectator, and to even the most austere enthusiast the prospect of a game without Wintergreen is dull indeed. From the viewpoint of the team, too, the band is definitely an asset. The blare of a brass horn has the heartening effect of a dozen cheers. Enthusiasm next week is expected to be high; Princeton is obviously one of the major opponents of the season and Coach Harlow's men deserve every encouragement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC HATH CHARMS | 11/1/1935 | See Source »

...Detroit last week Rev. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist lately called from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Curse | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

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