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In Venezuela, Eugene Manners, oil scout, "matches Yankee shrewdness against Latin cunning . . . and unscrupulous Dutch competitors." The heroine is "Sola Merida . . . whose flamelike beauty had so ill a setting in a foul cafe." Flamelike Sola appears at first as the daughter of Peon Pacheco. In the last chapter she is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sawdust Serial | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

"Honorable gentlemen opposite have been pretty cunning, very crafty in some of their methods of dealing with situations. . . . They have talked about a red-blooded attitude on the part of Canada They have chosen their ground well, because, if there is one thing above another that the honorable gentlemen are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Red Blood, Cool Heads | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Jose Gonzalo Escobar, the Mexican rebel leader who has retreated with Fabian cunning half the length of Mexico, made a stand last week at Jiminez. It resulted in what Minister of War Plutarco Elias Calles called "the bloodiest hour in Mexican history."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bloodiest Hour | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Since the three British parties (Conservative, Liberal and Laborite) have all booked their halls and arranged their radio broadcasts on the basis of May 30 as Election Day, the indomitable Scotch divines could not well have devised a more cunning means of embarrassing God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (Conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Election | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Why the uncompleted British airship R-100 was recently pulled out of her hangar at Howden, Yorkshire, was revealed last week. Rats, less cunning than those which infest but do not destroy surface ships, had invaded the hangar and threatened to eat the R-100's fabric. While the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rats, Ants, Snakes | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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