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...crossroad the American faces went by, rough-hewn and downy, seamed and corn-silk-smooth; gimlet-eyes, cross-eyes, big blue eyes, dim eyes; mouths wagging, lips smiling. When the train stopped, Mr. Farley said a few words, shook hands with those he could reach: hands bony, calloused, porky, damp, brown, white, black. And the train went on, past the blur of citizens in overalls, store suits, tailormades, in housedresses, straw hats with beaucatcher ribbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Farley Takes a Trip | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Later he was captured, chained to a damp wall in Puerto Cabello Fortress, whence he escaped by swimming through waters thick with sharks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Garibaldi's Conversion | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given him, and several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HABSBURG EMPIRE: Clown Prince | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Psousennes himself was not part of the haul. The damp climate of the Ni!e Delta had crumbled his mummified body entirely. All that was left of the second King of Egypt's 21st Dynasty was a little dust, a few bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tut's Rival | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Carvilte. Only leprosarium in the U. S., Carville has sheltered 1,200 patients since the first inmates were carried to its damp slave huts one dark night in 1894. Today, patients live in 45 wooden houses arranged around a quadrangle and linked by roofed plank platforms. These cottages, soon to be torn down, will be replaced by two-story fireproof houses. Last week construction workers started on a recreation building. For the rebuilding of Carville, the U. S. Public Health Service last year appropriated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lepers' Haven | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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