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...TIME had indeed forecast the genuine possibility of a Reich-Soviet Pact but was amply shocked by the exact time and the manner of the deed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...seemed to tell me, 'If you love Jerry ... let him slip away peacefully in his sleep . . . and he won't be tormented and looked at and yelled at and tortured by doctors." After one fitful, dream-racked night, Greenfield sent his wife to the shop, did the deed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...that Jim Farley's sole object was to line up convention delegates for himself is the fact that in politics-his profession-he is as hard-headed a man as there is alive. He is an automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect. As such he is most interested in backing a candidate who will win nomination and election in 1940. If that candidate is James Aloysius Farley, that will suit him fine. If it is Franklin Roosevelt or some other, Jim Farley will accommodate himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unrumpled Traveler | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...impossible not to feel that this interpretation, though far more appealing than its antithesis, loses something important to the play. Hamlet's intellectual nature, or, as Coleridge has it, his habit of "calculating consideration which attempts to exhaust all the relations and possible consequences of a deed," is, after all, fundamental to the plot. In Mr. Evans, this side of Hamlet is not absent, it is merely submerged; but it has so become indefinite that one is actually not convinced when he says "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!" Neither can one answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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