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...suspicions in the only way she knew. In spite of the gooseberries everything seemed to be coming out all right when Terry's tongue slipped. That set gossip wagging. Daisy might have shut her ears to the gossip but when she was assailed by a friendly but blackmailing social-climber, she knew the fat was in the fire. She collapsed, fled to her inaccessible cottage in France to hide her shame. Who pursued her there and what happened to make everything come out as well as could be expected is a denouement that "Elizabeth's" kindly wit just rescues from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Farce Manque | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...harmless social climber like genial Jimmy Thomas could ever have done such a thing was distinctly puzzling. He was not even present when members of the Royal Family signed the register at Westminster Abbey. Cabinet ministers like himself signed later at Buckingham Palace. Moreover, if he had managed to sign first, would either King George or Queen Mary have been likely to sign below James Henry Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Died. Rt. Rev. William Frederic Faber, 74, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Montana; of drowning: in Paradise Creek, Glacier National Park, Mont. Search parties found his body two days after the Bishop, an ardent mountain-climber, had left for a walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...lissier, Lapébie and Speicher are sprint specialists. Best climber in the race is Vicente Treuba, "Le Roi des Montagnes,'' a minuscule Spaniard who propels his 110-lb. body up the steepest slopes without leaving the saddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wheels Around France | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...bilious dream, is just as unpleasant in action. Its squarish, long-snouted, wrinkle-mouthed face is palely naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Apes on a Rock | 9/4/1933 | See Source »

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