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...convict me," he told the court. "Indeed you must. . . . But you cannot deprive me of the satisfaction of having personified, for a moment at least, French faith in our civic liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Road to Glory | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...than with furtive and somewhat successful attempts to pull the bedclothes over Will Hays' (and Lana's) eyes. Taylor tries awfully hard, which is more than can be said for Hays. He chases Lana around, in a bewildered plot which has something or other to do with a paroled convict using the District Attorney's daughter to get himself...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/25/1942 | See Source »

Then with stone walls crumbling, bar racks and asylums emptying fast, penitentiaries ablaze, and the Capitol presumably under control, Poet Cowley heard "an unchoked sigh, a moan of liberation" rise from mean streets, moonless areaways, factory gates, convict camps and the Cotton Belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Inopportune | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...loving publishers.* In their survey of more than three centuries of opera they give some bassoon blatts to some of opera's most sacred cows (Wagner's Parsifal is largely "plain dreary"). Brockway and Weinstock ticket Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera for its less-than-flawless taste, convict it of indifference to native opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Words & Music | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Better 'Ole. In Anamosa, Iowa, a paroled convict pondered the state of the world, asked to be readmitted to prison, got an extra 15 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1941 | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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