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...will not find a hole in it through which you can slip to return to the fleshpots of Egypt. There is only one possibility for you : emigrate - if some one will accept you." While Herr Bürckel wants an "Aryanization" of Vienna just as much as his buoyant Storm Troopers, the Nazi organ, believed to reflect his views, declared there will be no pogroms," reminded everyone that "Germany is a land of justice." In Manhattan arrived Führer Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund after a trip to Germany and Austria. Met by two gray-coated, black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Land of Justice | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Coach Ulen detected a poorly-disguised flutter-kick in the Australian's breastroking and promptly disqualified him. Charlie Hutter combined track with swimming by clambering out of the pool after each lap and sprinting around the edge, in a futile effort to catch Kendall. He was hampered by a buoyant attire of three life-rings and two pairs of waterwings. The medley was the only scratch event, the others being run on a handicap basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tankmen Finish Season Gaily With Semi-Freak Meet, Dinner | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

...some ways the buoyant, penniless, unbreakable Bronson Alcott-who bounced up and down as good-naturedly as if the path from success to failure was the most pleasant and natural one in the world-symbolized this spirit better than anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alcotts | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from tired business men who generally had their secretaries put the calls through for them. It's Love I'm After, not a mugs' picture, needs no such furtive blurbing. It is refreshing, impudent fun: a buoyant cinema making faces at its precise old aunt, the theatre. Actor Leslie Howard (Hamlet to Broadway a season ago) makes most of the faces, in the role of an aging matinee idol whose charms are fatal to impressionable clubwomen, gushing schoolgirls. To his leading lady (Bette Davis, happily restored to comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Producer Miller's first importation this year is Author Rattigan's first successful play of any year. It is buoyant, imponderably slight. Its setting is the living room of M. Maingot's villa in the south of France, whither a group of young Englishmen have come to learn French in preparation for the ''diplomatic'' and to have their lives complicated by a predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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