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...bandages from our feebly protesting star and tied him up with the Princeton half-hitch. That was all very well until, after the squad hit Cambridge again, our hero, smiling through his tears, visited Dillon Field House to have some attention paid to the injured member. A cry of disgust rent the air. "Who the HELL did that job?" said a pained voice, and the trainer lunged for the bandages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 2/21/1935 | See Source »

...long-drawn and emphatic, was in former days on the CRIMSON an expression of disgust and despair. I hope that much survives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "God" | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

...they get a thorough grounding in Marx, Lenin and Stalin, for the circus, like every medium of Soviet entertainment, is also a medium of propaganda. All loyal clowns try to make their buffoonery a satire on the enemies of the Party without, inefficient bureaucrats within. To the infinite disgust of old and unsympathetic moujiks who go to the circus for amusement, the eager young graduates of the Technicum of Circus Art like nothing better than to drop their fun-making and stunts, put on a pageant of the class struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Soviet Circus | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing in disgust, was recalled to direct the picture. When Paramount finally got down to work, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer was made in 88 working days, mostly on location within 50 miles of Hollywood. Four thousand actors performed in it at one time or another. It cost about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...beautiful and well-to-do woman verging on spinsterhood, had the dangerous idea of inviting all her friends for a weekend. Her friends, like most lovely women's friends, were not friends; some of them were enthusiastic enemies. They arrived, in various stages of intoxication, exhaustion and disgust, sank further into their emotional states when they saw who their fellow-guests were. The happily married scientists were embarrassed, tried not to show it. The mousy banker, Flora's tame cat, who had been picked up by a golddigger en route, had no eyes for anyone but his hostess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iowa's Connecticut | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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