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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet strength of character and experience in getting his way by imperceptible means. He figured largely in setting up the ingenious contraption known as Great Britain's "National Government." His will was instrumental in having the general election held just in time to permit His Majesty to die happy in the knowledge that British Tories are safely in for five more years. Last week in this favorable environment the new King was exceedingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentlemen, the Kings! | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...three children. Though Director Wilson, like his predecessor, has delved in the tomb of TutankhAmen, he is unimpressed by the tabloid demonology which would put him under a Pharaoh's "curse." In fact, he points out, insurance actuaries marvel at the ripe old age at which most Egyptologists die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: After Breasted | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...first to find what was killing the men." Mrs. Jones, according to Miss Allen, begged money along the road to pay for x-rays of the lungs of her son Shirley who asked on his deathbed to "be opened up to see if I didn't die from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...multiply the forms of perfection and happiness, as nature prompts them. . . . The good, as I conceive it, is happiness, happiness for each man after his own heart, and for each hour according to its inspiration. I should dread to transplant my happiness into other people; it might die in that soil. . . . Ah, I know why my critics murmur and are dissatisfied. I do not endeavor to deceive myself, nor to deceive them, nor to aid them in deceiving themselves. They will never prevail on me to do that. I am a disciple of Socrates...

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

...Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence Sterne, this proverb goes back to the French, 1594). Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off (1640). Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse (1670). Never say die (Dickens, 1837). Silence in the pig-market, and let the old sow have a grunt (1894). Three classes of clergy: Nimrods, ramrods, and fishing-rods...

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

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