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...unfamiliar pictures neatly quarter President Washington's life 1) a miniature attributed to John Singleton Copley executed when Washington was 25; 2) a Peale showing Washington, the Virginia colonel; 3) Trumbull's portrait of Washington, the General, painted in 1792, in which the subject is standing on a high cliff while a pickaninny in a turban holds his horse; 4) Washington, the Old Gentleman, with a somewhat rufous nose and in full Masonic regalia, done by William Williams for Alexandria (Va) Lodge No. 39. Their respective denominations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Twelve Washingtons | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...first rape. Fourteen thousand Army & Navy men on the island boiled with .rage. Fortnight ago a Japanese, Horace Ida, was seized by three carloads of sailors from the Pearl Harbor base, whisked across the island to the Pali precipice. After threats to throw him over the 1,207-ft. cliff, Ida was stripped, beaten with belt buckles and pistol butts, kicked and cuffed, left half-dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Lust in Paradise | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

After he had driven his wife to a Hollywood club meeting one day last week, Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt. 57-year-old retired plumber of Santa Monica, found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Dailey's Meat Store | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Before he knew what had happened, Mr. Leavitt found himself holding a gunny sack and into his ear a voice ? he thought it was Cliff Dailey's ? was urgently whispering: "Quick! Get rid of this! Out the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Dailey's Meat Store | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

Members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club will climb some of the cliffs in the Quincy granite quarries tomorrow afternoon, in order to give the new members some experience in cliff-sealing. The officers of the club are at present A. F. Megrew '32, president, D. W. Brown, Jr. '34, H. B. Washburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineers Tackle Cliffs | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

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