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...past upon the streets forever, like a single animal, with the sinuous and baleful convolutions of an enormous reptile. And the magical and shining air-the strange, subtle and enchanted weather, was above them, and the buried men were strewn through the earth on which they trod, and a bracelet of great tides was flashing round them, and the enfabled rock on which they swarmed swung eastward in the marches of the sun into eternity, and was masted like a ship with its terrific towers, and was flung with a lion's port between its tides into the very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Voice | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...Stockholm fastidious King Gustaf V, who hates and fears the Bolsheviks across the Baltic, could rejoice at all sorts of prosperous indexes as he snapped on his sapphire cuff links, his dainty wrist watch and his gold snake bracelet. Stockholm editors now speak of Depression as something definitely passed. Registered unemployment is down from the peak of 187,000 at this time last year to 53,000. Taking 100 as the measure of Swedish production in 1929, it is up from 79 during 1932 to 101 today. Typical of pleasant surprises, to which Swedes are now growing accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Happy Lands | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...chagrin of Scotland Yard its sleuths had to admit last week that they could not find a $35,000 diamond bracelet lost at the Duke of Kent's wedding by the No. 1 bridesmaid, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, dumpling daughter of the World's Wealthiest Woman, Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...others turned up in Paris to help her celebrate her birthday. For the party, which cost $10,000, her polo-loving husband Prince Alexis had virtuous apologies: "We didn't think it fitting to spend too much in these times." For his twinkling wife he had a diamond bracelet. "I hope," said he, "that everyone will now realize we are happily married." Last week Prince Alexis kissed his wife goodby, was off to India and polo. Princess Barbara would reach Manhattan just in time for Thanksgiving dinner with her father. Early next year the Mdivanis expect to see each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

When Arthur W. Fuchs, Eastman's x-ray expert, took the picture, the girl was wearing a white cotton dress. Visible were her jewelry: a necklace and pendant of gold and jade, a white-gold wrist watch, a silver bracelet, two rings, an earring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Beauty's Bones | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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