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This is a tight, tart little diatribe upon Things That Are in the U. S. It is compact with disgust of a shrewd Manhattan lawyer who despises cultural inconsistencies and would like to destroy them. Superficially America's Primer resembles New Russia's Primer (TIME, May 4). But the Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Compact Disgust* | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

It was not long before Peter Pentecost found that he was indeed no churl. He was the hidden son of the dead Duke of Buckingham whom King Harry had swept aside on his way to the throne. Peter suddenly found himself a man with a destiny. A group of ambitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Compact Disgust* | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

At 5 a. m. Patrolman Melvin saw a yacht's searchlight flashing off the Steel Pier. Thinking it was a rumrunner, he made no effort to interfere. After a decent interval he approached the pier, was told by the night watchman that no rum had landed but that five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Conspirators | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Marie was a Parisian maid-of-all-work but a country girl at heart. She worked for the Deloses, an avaricious jeweler and his discontented wife, was in love with Babylas, a mulatto chauffeur. Babylas' motives were neither pure nor unmixed: he took Marie for lack of something better, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cavalry, C. S. A.* | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

"Be discontented; it is another name for ambition. Be selfish; don't work for the professors. Be disobedient; do not believe everything you are told. Be lazy and fond of music, books, impracticable flowers and the birds that sing, though there be no ear to hear."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Make a Dollar | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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