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...generally, and his beautiful wife, adored by the orchestra leader's playboy crony in particular, and the difficulties which they cause each other before achieving final reconciliation. When the wife leaves the orchestra leader, she runs into such troubles as alcoholism, fainting spells and fits of giggles to conceal her breaking heart. When she refuses to take him back, he experiences the same symptoms, with overtones of rudeness, egomania and, finally, prostration. The only thing that makes these developments, usually reserved for pictures aimed at double bills, remarkable in Break of Hearts, is that herein they are the vehicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: May 27, 1935 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Shouted an irate Senator: "Nothing can conceal, Monsieur, that your program is for confiscation of the savings of the Belgian people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Devaluation No. 2 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...taxes. In contradistinction, the apartment owners have to provide for capital outlays and taxes. With this comparative advantage in upkeep charges, the least the College can do is to provide an adequate staff for the care of rooms. The self-congratulatory phrases about drastic economics and shakeups should not conceal the fact that there is such a thing as false economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEEPING ECONOMY | 2/13/1935 | See Source »

...highly developed technology but no spiritual and intellectual freedom. Under such stifling conditions all vital interest in art and literature would fade and enthusiasm for pure thought would vanish; what would remain would be a barbarism which all the radios and automobiles and skyscrapers in the world would not conceal. In such a desert, the applied scientists, essential for a smooth operation of the complex mechanism, might be the only men with a true education. The monks in the Dark Ages preserved the remnants of one civilization to enable another to come to life. Perhaps, in some measure at some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Monks | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...Carlstrom of Chicago contributed a tear-gas gun which a woman may conceal beneath her skirt, ready for use at the approach of a molester. Miss Catherine A. Moran pulled up her dress to show how it was used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gadgeteers Gather | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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