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...declare: "Horst Wessel was murdered by the command of Communist party leaders." On the strength of this testimony Epstein and Ziegler were sentenced to decapitation. No effort was made to hush up the fact that Hero Horst Wessel, far from disliking women as has been suggested, kept a buxom mistress, Lucie of the Alexanderplatz. Also cleaned up last week was the biggest high treason trial ever held in Germany, with no defendants. German papers reported the trial only on the first day. After that Communist defendants by the dozens began retracting confessions of treason which they dared to accuse Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Horst Wessel Windup | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...rough, nickel-loded, forest-fuzzed Canadian frontier at the east end of Lake Nipissing bulged large with spring's fertility last week. The full moon with Venus, Mars and Saturn accompanying swelled pompously across the midnight sky. And in a lamplit farmhouse near Callander a buxom French-Canadian woman of 24 whimpered with the unusual fullness of her womb. She, too, had three attendants-her aunt, another goodwife who had borne 17 children, and her husband Ovila Dionne. Upstairs in bed were the two boys and three girls of the Dionnes. Four years in his grave lay their sixth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quintuplets | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Under his son, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the house rose to higher and higher glories. Yet Friedrich Alfred failed in one important respect: he left no make heir to carry on. It took Kaiser Wilhelm II to solve this difficulty. When big buxom Bertha, Friedrich Alfred's daughter, came of marriageable age Wilhelm betrothed her to protege of his own selection and training; Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach--and it was the groom, not his bride whose name changed by the betrothal. He then became Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Under this new head of the house, who took command...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMS AND THE MEN | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

...mother's lovers. Count Kardak was a wise and charming old sybarite who should have known better. In fact he did, but how could he resist the idea of inviting Renee to his remote little principality for the wedding of his earnest, dull and handsome heir, Max, to the buxom girl scout duchess of the neighboring principality? In the ensuing battle of wits with wits and with with brawn, Count Anton looked on helplessly at some amazing situations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...Mother's scene is China, a small, poor village. Readers will notice gratefully that almost no proper names are used. The heroine is a buxom, warm-tempered young wife who finds her hard life good. Days she spends in the field working beside her man. At evening she cooks for her three children and her aged mother-in-law. She has no spare time and knows what the future will be, but her only worries, soon forgotten, are her daughter's sore eyes, her husband's occasional moody discontent. Her happiness is shattered when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother Nature | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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