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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uvalde, Texas, a spry, bowlegged little man with a stubborn back-hair cowlick celebrated his 71st birthday by packing a lunch (including a hunk of birthday cake baked by his wife), rode off after deer. Six days late was John Nance Garner in bagging his annual buck; but he was on time at the hunt campfire, where he dished up his special concoction-"Son-of-a-gun stew," which supposedly includes a dash of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wagon Wheels | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Such ear-slitting, said Eliot and Eleanor Clark last week, is no more painful than piercing for old-fashioned earrings. The rabbits are placid and happy, wear warm grey flannel pajamas, take vacations in Europe, occasionally feast on ice cream and cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rabbit Windows | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Besides sampling generously the whipped cream, cake and beer, and holding a prolonged conference with His Excellency the Ambassador (the Italian Ambassador was the party's wallflower), Field Marshal Göring allowed himself to be cornered by foreign newsmen and interviewed on the U. S. embargo repeal. While Ja-man Bodenschatz chimed in with Nazi amens to his chief's words, the correspondents put these questions and Göring gave these answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Are Humane | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Vander Eb your cake and eat it too," thundered Huey. "The team may be as good as Gould, but Alimi to state that it will be Harvard 32, New Hampshire 0. By the way, who was that Lacy I seen you with last night...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: SAGE BLESSES ELEVEN, SAYS "HARLOWED BY THY NAME" | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...Majesty, while busy with such grave matters of State, snatched time to give a birthday breakfast party at 8 a.m. to Crown Prince Mihai. Cake is sometimes eaten for breakfast in Rumania, and Mihai sat down to steaming coffee and a cake with 18 candles. He is thus of age and under the Rumanian Constitution automatically became a Senator, as do all crown princes of the Rumanian Royal Family on attaining their majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Bessarabia and Breakfast | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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