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...handsome young Artist Caviedes is no stranger in Madrid either to artists or socialites. A well-off son of a distinguished sculptor, he and his handsome young wife are frequently seen golfing at the country club, lunching at the Ritz. Ever since he was old enough to crawl, Hipolito de Caviedes has scribbled, scrawled, finally painted in his father's studio. Like most other young artists, he shares the current enthusiasm for murals, has done much to decorate his native city since the fall of the monarchy. Equipped with Caviedes murals is not only the Café Fuentelarreyna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carnegie Winners | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...browrn cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blood & Agony | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...wirehaired, effective native Washingtonian just 40 whose name, after 16 years in the Government service, has lately emerged as a household word, Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With an appropriation of $50,000 and an enthusiastic waiting list. Director Hoover decided: "First we'll crawl. Maybe after that we'll walk, maybe run, maybe fly." By rigid adherence to this careful program of crawling, walking, running and flying Director Hoover has built in the past decade one of the finest, most efficient law enforcement agencies the world has ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sleuth School | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...month's leading periodicals. I would gladly discuss any magazine that I could find. The only one that I have at hand, however, is Esquire. If you think that I am going to give President Conant the chance to padlock our door so that we have to crawl in the window you are mistaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 6/14/1935 | See Source »

...this day of days did Baron Aloisi want the Italian Dictator to crawl back and cravenly accept League dictation in the Abyssinia dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dinner for Three | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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