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...Manhattan. He set out to see some friends, was stopped by an elevator strike. He started to go shopping, was drenched in a downpour. He went to the theatre, lost two of his offspring. Sputtering General Martinez ordered nine rooms on a transatlantic liner, sailed for Europe in disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...acute embarrassment of the week. FTP Vaudeville Production 4-A was booked to appear at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, while Production 3-A was to be sent to amuse U. S. soldiers stationed on Governor's Island. Through some stupid blunder, the soldiers, to their great disgust, were offered 4-A, a skit called School Days in which frisky scholars tossed apples at their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called Parisian Nights. Intended for military consumption, this program included a scene between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Double-Jeopardy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Wintering at Slick Rock, N. C., Mrs. Calvin Coolidge slogged through a 14-in. snow fall, returned in disgust to Northampton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 27, 1936 | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

More than two years after the overthrow of Tyrant Gerardo Machado, Cuba last week went to the polls in boredom, suspicion and disgust, to elect a President, a Congress, provincial Governors and mayors. Cuba had had no election at all for eight years, no election even moderately honest for 20. Most politicos, who preferred their own voices to the people's votes, had made certain that last week's election would prove as little as possible. It was the quietest election in Cuban history, for which U. S. bigwigs in Havana gave much credit to able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Plugger's Victory | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...Members differ emphatically on the correct pronunciation of the society's name, classicists holding out for the pure Greek Phee Bayta Kahppa, the 0 B K Senate insisting on the completely Anglicized Phy Beeta Kappa. To the disgust of purists on both sides of the fence, the National Council seems to be on the verge of authorizing the common hybrid Phy Bayta Kappa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Phy Beeta Kappa v. Phee Bayta Kahppa | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

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