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...very wet joke. Amid this flood of the heavens there was a squirming and uneasiness. Oilskins from the Five and Ten covered exposed legs; the water coursed down the smooth surface of the cloth onto the backs of those in front. Gentlemen turned down the rear brim of their hats, and the water spouted into the face of those behind. The Vagabond's girl borrowed his handkerchief to tie down her unstable hat; one was not enough, however, and she claimed his pocket handkerchief--it was blue and white; it now is bluish white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Every morning for 50 years Roland M. Smythe entered his musty office at No. 2 Broadway, hung his umbrella on the hatrack, opened the hatbox on his big roller desk and placed his hat therein, brim up. It served as a basket for important papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cat & Dog Dealer | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...thorough digestion, several matters stand out most significantly from the main body of thought. First, he has demolished the wild, pre-election talk of "dictatorship", declaring pointedly that "change (in the presidency) will occur in future years." Second, the tenor of his speech, as was expected, is decidedly paternalistic, brim full of suggestions for changes leading to increased national power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARTING A COURSE | 1/7/1937 | See Source »

Emulating Uncle Tom's Cabin's Eliza, a fox fleeing from hounds of the Genesee Valley Hunt near Geneseo, N. Y. last week darted across the thin ice of the Genesee River to safety. Whereas Eliza merely left the bloodhounds baying on the brim, Geneseo's fox lured its pursuers out on the ice, which broke under them, drowning ten of the Hunt's hounds, including Wonder and Bouncer, the two best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Eliza Improved | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Relay. Last week's opening ceremonies were the last stage in a concentrated year-long ballyhoo which made the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, loudest previous sports event in history, seem, by comparison, as quiet as a race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympic Games | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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