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...turn out all right, but I don't think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between right and wrong." She said that the family is "low-brow," and "riff-raff. . . . Neighbors complain that the children are a nuisance with their marauding habits and the family is unspeakably dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Friendly Test | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...turned away, slowly moved back to their cells. One convict was dead, two guards, a deputy warden and two convicts injured. Two of the convicts, life termers, faced death if convicted of attacking a guard. The riot had lasted an hour and a half. Giant Warden Davis wiped his brow, strolled back to his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Barehanded | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Adherence to life's law that one's bread must be earned by the sweat of one's brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Informal Decalog | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...wearer of the famed Hope ("Hoodoo") diamond, estranged wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: McLean Bauble | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Free Press wears a century on its brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birthdays | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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