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...Lyda Southard smoothed down her green "going-away" dress, patted her plump bust, and cast a last, almost regretful glance at the cretonne curtains and flowered wallpaper. After all, it had been home for a long time, even if it was the women's ward of the Idaho State Penitentiary. She had fixed up the room right pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Flypaper Lyda | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...second scene was my doctoral oral. For early an hour I wrought havoc among the Indo-European vowels and consonants, like the demented Ajax with the sheep, and though that all was over, Bust across the gloom came a ray of hope in the form of a question from Mr. Kittredge which suggested that the questioner had not yet put on the black...

Author: By Douglas Bush and Professor OF English, S | Title: BUSH RECALLS AWE AND GRATITUDE AROUSED BY SCHOLAR'S MAJESTY | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

Noteworthy fact about the swap: in their new setting in the Supreme Court room, Carpenter's emancipators looked directly across the room at the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who handed down the anti-Negro Dred Scott decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Historical Whopper | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...soloists-Fiddlers Efrem Zimbalist and Joseph Szigeti-to fill their dates (two each) this season. Petrillo could call the fiddlers' tune because they had joined his A.F. of M. after resigning from the American Guild of Musical Artists (the boiled-shirt union which Petrillo has been trying to bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aut Caesar Aut Nullus | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...with a meaning, i.e., every woman has some unfinished business in her life. In the life of Nancy Adams (Irene Dunne) it is a premarital romance with her husband's elder brother (Preston Foster). Until she makes her husband (Robert Montgomery) accept its significance, their marriage is a bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1941 | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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