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...Outing Club!" snarled the dyspeptic Vagabond as he sank into the most luxurious easy-chair of his sumptuous suite. "Why can't they leave the outing clubs at Dartmouth, where that sort of thing belongs?" His complexion was losing its summer tan, taking on the familiar city sallowness, and his eyes were red with Cambridge soot. This Cambridge Scrooge rested upon his recumbent spine, and his head nodded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

...girls were rated on four classifications--complexion, figure, looks, and brain, and most had some comment across the bottom of the card. "Free and easy" and "Torrid" were the most common remarks. One card significantly revealed two words: "Hot" with a line drawn through it, and directly beneath it, "Reformed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Tenant Finds Tested Telephonic Treasure Trove | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

When Hollywood mixes sweet and inexperienced Olivia deHavilland with Charles Boyer, as a cynical Rumanian gigolo whose past is as dark as his Latin complexion, a strange alchemy results which, with Mexican clime thrown in as catalyst, generates plenty of heat during most of the show, but often just fizzles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hold Back the Dawn" | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

...Banner Armies to support the armies defending Moscow. Reason for the Fleet's presence in Yokohama harbor was made plain by Navy Spokesman Rear Admiral Minoru Mayeda, who said: "A further crisis might arise in the Sea of Japan itself, should Vladivostok take on an anti-Japanese complexion. You may be sure that the Imperial Navy is prepared to meet any emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Three to Make Ready | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Seguro Obrero (Workers' Insurance Building) were shot or bayoneted after surrender. Popular disgust with the Government of President Arturo Alessandri, as well as with the Nacistas, brought to power the Popular Front, and to the Presidency the onetime high-school professor who is called Don Tinto because his complexion resembles the good red wine he makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Sept. 5 Comes in May | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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