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Naturally the German press blazed wrath. Cried the Tagliche Rundschau, organ of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann: "This infamous blemish on French justice in the occupied Rhineland is a blow with the fist in the face of the German people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blow with Fist | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...call to decide for your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOTES: In New York City | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

Like any hotblooded individual, the sun is subject to periodic eruptions of the countenance. Last week, growing steadily, almost visible to the naked eye, a vast blemish appeared on the eastern solar cheek, a disfiguration 50,000 or 60,000 mi. across, caused by some disarrangement of the internal molten solar humors. Dr. David Todd of Amherst College, in reporting the spot to laity, reminded them to look next for displays of the aurora borealis. Just what influence the sun exerts-whether cathode rays, Hertzian waves or negatively charged particles-to cause "the dance of the dead men," the "merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Acne | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...exact, the fourth ventricle of the trembling sheep, permitting the body to lie undisturbed until the blood had thoroughly drained from its lax veins. The ritual has never changed. Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat. If there is any blemish in the manner of the killing, the meat of that killing is treife, unclean; it taints whatever it touches, and it were better for a man to cut off his right hand than to eat of it. Certain beasts are of themselves unclean?the pig, the camel and the hare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosher | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...ever in round helmet and shiny breastplate-a Roundhead Captain in the forces of Oliver Cromwell. Divesting himself of these friendly ferries, he enters the enemy stronghold at Staversham as a spy. Spying he is spied upon, detected, made prisoner. There follows a hideously tiresome torture scene-the only blemish of the production. Finally the lovely heroine files his fetters and he escapes via the water route beneath the castle walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 22, 1923 | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

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