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...next day at 7:45 a.m. and on to St. Joseph-where in a raw breeze, surrounded by rouged Indian ladies, gum-chewing, feather-bonneted Indian bucks, Mr. Farley launched hoarsely into a lengthy eulogy of the Pony Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Farley Takes a Trip | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...great holes of Mauna Loa, Kilauea, Hualalai, and poured it steaming across the island of Hawaii. To her Hawaiians sacrificed many a pig, many a steer, precious possessions. In caverns formed by the hardened lava, the corpses of ancient kings and the loftier chieftains were interred, with weapons, canoes, feather cloaks, as richly red and yellow as volcanic fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mauna Loa Erupts | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Money and women are scarce in the mountains, but the Fakir and his tribesmen are experts at both stealing and kidnapping. His favorite tricks are planting bombs on British parade grounds, poisoning wells, connecting telephone lines with power circuits and luring unsuspecting Indian Army contingents into death traps. Biggest feather in his turban came when he caused the British Raj to send out an expensive expedition of 30,000 men to hunt down the Fakir and his few thousand followers. The British scoured the crags and peered into caves for months without ever catching him, and at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Frontier Firebrand | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...which undergraduates are expected to eat in the houses, has not changed Porkies' habits: they still have dinner every evening at the club. There they solemnly observe certain traditions. One of these is a crew song. At a certain point, as they sing "I float like a feather," members whip handkerchiefs out of their pockets and toss them into the air to float...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pore | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...write an editorial but he can do a lot of dirty work and we need a guy like that around here every year. "Jim has never learned how to be a hot jazz fan, and in consequence of this failing I am very sad for Jim," said Inchball Feather-stoneaugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/7/1940 | See Source »

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