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In 1913 Waldo Frank returned from Europe to rediscover the U. S. He found it "a hostile waste." Manhattan's skyline failed to impress him: like John Ruskin viewing the exterior of King's College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungled Orator | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

But the French critics still fought shy of him. His exhibition was a financial failure. In a brawl with some sailors his leg was badly broken. His Javanese mistress decamped with his money. In towering disgust Gauguin auctioned off his pictures, went back to the South Seas for good & all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Bad Wolf | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

"It is impossible to calculate that moral mischief . . . . that mental lying has produced in society. When * man has so far corrupted. . . . the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. . . . "

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

*Shoemakers whose guild name was corrupted from Cordovan (Spanish) leather.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Chamberlain Centennial | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Rev. Charles Jaynes, pastor in Detroit of a foursquare Gospel Church affiliated with Aimee Semple McPherson's organization has a chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Evangelist, 6 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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