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...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duchess' 42nd birthday off the Riviera aboard the yacht Frixos, lent them for the occasion by their friend "Nicky" Zographos, head of the Greek gambling syndicate in Monte Carlo, day after moving into their newly redecorated Chateau de la Cröe. Four days later they celebrated the Duke's 44th birthday at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...mail in the U. S.). Typically, it commented on both the primary (year-to-year) and secondary (month-to-month) trends of the market; reminded subscribers that the former ''continues to point downward." said that the latter's trend will be shown by consistent upward cr downward swings of both averages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tides, Waves, Ripples | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found in France: "C'est son père tout craché;" ". . . y reconnut man portrait tout craché," (Voltaire, Crépinade; see craché, Vol. I, p. 878, Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, edited by E. Littré; Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...could doubt the Geological Sur vey cr Painter Thomas Moran. When he came back from the Yellowstone with a tremendous canvas of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone seen through a romantic mist. Congress voted $10,000 to buy it and hung the canvas in the Senate Lobby, where it is today. In 1872 Yellowstone Valley became the first National Park, and Thomas Moran acquired the nickname that stuck to him for the rest of his life: Thomas ("Yellowstone") Moran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Yellowstone Man | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...knew to be received in a Papal audience a woman must have on a black dress with high neck and long sleeves and that she must wear a black veil. Well, I had a black crêpe de Chine dress with long sleeves left over from last winter, which I had had all pressed and cleaned by the tailor, and it was hanging in my closet. I bought a small black felt hat, new black slippers, a small black veil, black hose and black gloves. I packed these things in a sort of 'sacred apart' from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: She Sees the Pope | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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