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...could hardly repress a laugh as I watched the old fellow, wiping beads of perspiration from his brow, fidgeting nervously with the golden head on his cane. Finally he walked up the stairs to the Sanctum. I could hear him moving about, piling the furniture before the door, and locking the windows. At length he called down to me through the copy shoot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

Putzy, renowned as the agreeable gentleman who soothes Adolf Hitler's furrowed brow with music, is Nazi Press Chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/20/1936 | See Source »

...week was the more remarkable because in 1933 the Ochs memorandum was shown to Lord Lee, received his approval in writing, and contains this epilog by Mr. Ochs: "I have told Lord Lee on several occasions that I hoped some day to place a wreath of laurel on his brow for having been the originator and promoter of this epoch-making event." In Cuba, tough Lord Lee was a Rough Rider with the late great Theodore Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Common Upper Limit | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

What have endeared M. Besson most to the voters of Le Puy in central France are his hair and his temper. On the Besson skull, hair grows only in two patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Triumph of Bouboule | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...brow of scrubby Pine Mountain, five miles out the Franklin D. Roosevelt Highway from Warm Springs, Ga., the Herald Tribune's correspondent had sought out lanky Otis Moore to find how things were going on the 2,500-acre farm which the President bought while convalescing at Warm Springs in 1925 (TIME, Dec. 10). Manager Moore, father of five, reported the best crops in years, said the farm's two white and five Negro tenant families looked forward to a reasonably comfortable winter. The farm, which directly adjoins a New Deal homestead project, has never paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Pine Mountain | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

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