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Most men give themselves away in their letters, and T. E. was no exception. The final casting-up of his complicated, restless, unfrank character is well done by Robert Graves: "He had all the marks of the Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I.E. | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Walking across the Johns Hopkins campus one day after a rain, Dr. Wood passed a group of students. As he went by, he spat into a puddle. Instantly, to their amazement, a jet of diabolic yellow flame spurted from the water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prince | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

THE DARK GREEN CIRCLE-Edward Shanks-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Pleasant, ambling tale of polite romance, dark forces, diabolic rites, in a quiet English village. Only the most impressionable will subscribe to the publisher's assertion that the story "Casts a Spell!''

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Today, through the bright blue sky which forms a clear, curving vault over the destinies of Harvard, there flashes a splendid new meteor:--one well fitted to take its place beside such marvellous and awesome celestial bodies as the Tercentenary Celebration, the Yale Race, the Freshman Smoker and the Rotary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON SLAUGHTER | 5/14/1936 | See Source »

Howerth finally conquered the monster he had created, and diabolic old Nicholas Holtz was at last cornered by a kitten. But long before this ingenious horror story lays out its final cadaver, many a germ-haunted reader will be thinking seriously of gargling.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Germs | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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