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Ramsay MacDonald has been flayed before, but never so mercilessly as Mr. Muggeridge flays him as "Mr. High-Mind"; Buchmanism has been ridiculed before, but seldom so savagely: "Like moral courage, moral victory, moral anything, Moral Rearmament represents an attempt to reconcile the contrary demands of flesh and spirit by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The British | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Author Miller took cannibalism much more easily in his stride than did Seabrook. On one occasion he says he led a highly successful head-hunting expedition to save his own neck, spares few details in describing it and the three-day orgy which followed. As other races use lanterns, flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Festive Vertebrae | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Adventure and romance, not flight from suicide, says Author Anderson, was the aim of the swarthy, 21-year-old ex-clerk-farmer-teacher who signed on the Acushnet ("Pequod") at New Bedford one winter day in 1840. Other travelers' accounts (which he shrewdly disparaged) furnished the main basis for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lies-cu/n-Art | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

The dogs' owner had rented the house under the name of "Everall." Arrested, she and her husband now called themselves "Mr. & Mrs. David Brown." "I did the best I could," wept Mrs. Brown. ". . . We fed them every week or so." Their lawyer said later they were really David and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Starved Dogs | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

First thing Rube did was to ask the Sun for hints on editorial policy. He was given a list of orthodox Republican likes and dislikes, touched up with a heavily jocular postcript: "Dear Rube: We also in theory favor truth and beauty and oppose rape and cannibalism."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rube in the Sun | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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