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With all due respect to the flaccid corruption innate to this snowy municipality, the recent exposures warrant firm action. Rumor has floated about that a well-known shoe firm is in collusion with the Cambridge city government. They aren't after the voter's cash. These avaricious galoshers are just drooling for undergraduate sacker money; so what do they do, but fix it up with the boys to keep the streets about Harvard full of snow. In fact, trucks of slush from other parts of the town may have been dumped on Mt. Auburn St. late at night. The Liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUCK-RAKING | 2/27/1934 | See Source »

...vague but benevolent White Paper program destined to give India a little more freedom some years hence, or scrap the White Paper here and now. As the scrappiest of pro-scrappers appeared peppery, red-haired Winston Churchill who for years has been trying to steal the Party leadership from "flaccid" Mr. Baldwin and "cold" Mr. Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Triumphal Bumble | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...front cover) Adolf Hitler in repose can look as flaccid as a circus fat lady, but so far as the German people know he never rests from his heroic labors, dashes constantly up and down the Fatherland in multi-motored planes, never smokes and subsists wholly on fruit, vegetables, nuts, and dairy products. Last week the Vegetarian Superman flew over Poland's hated Corridor to a big cozy country house at Neudeck in East Prussia. There he gripped hands with that hearty eater of tenderloin steaks, pork sausages, pigs-knuckles and chopped raw beef & onions, President Paul von Beneckendorff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: WE DEMAND! | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...feature writers like Damon Runyon and Ed Hill (see p. 40) were sent to Washington. The New York Journal shrieked: REVEAL MORGAN RULES INDUSTRY. In a page-wide strip of Morgan pictures in the Journal the banker's mustache was obviously painted out to give him a long, flaccid upper lip and Capone-like mien. Editorially Hearst was slow in getting under way. being still excited over the "foreign entanglements'' which the U. S. had incurred by its Disarmament policy. (On the day when its front page "bared" the "Morgan deals." the New York Evening Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hare & Hounds | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...film version of Don Quixote, Composer Maurice Ravel the music. The producers are hoping that again, as with Bolero, Ravel has exercised his flair for writing music which will please all kinds of people. To pay its way the film will need music more captivating than Massenet's flaccid operatic score. Chaliapin has been given two supporting casts, one English (Nelson Film, producers), one French (Nelson and Vandor, producers). He is said to be asking $200,000 as his share of the returns. Because he asked $4,000 a concert. Chaliapin's last U. S. tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Don, Old Squire | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

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