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Scarcely a petal of each play is preserved-an air of one, a snatch of another -but the writers of the script (Gilliat worked with Leslie Baily, whose Gilbert & Sullivan Book was a 1952 bestseller) have deftly wired them all together to make a charming, if slightly artificial musical forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

The nurse put down a rug and on the rug a baby of about a year old. Then she returned to a seat, well sheltered by some laurel bushes from the spring breeze, still cool, and opened a book. The baby lay on its back for some minutes, gazing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ROMANCE | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Into the flag-decked station rolled the royal train. King George in the dress uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOTLAND: Homecoming | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

The parietal rules which govern the reception of women in college dormitories have been intelligently revised in the past year. But the machinery through which room permissions are secured still remains cumbersome and needlessly involved, a sort of haunting forget-me-not inherited from an age and a people who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUX FEMINA FACTI | 10/18/1933 | See Source »

Ceremonious was the Gold Star leavetaking. Airplanes dropped poppies. Ziegfeld chorus girls sent a great wreath. Mothers carried forget-me-not nosegays, waved little U. S. flags. Bands played. Chief of Staff Summerall read a parting message from Acting Secretary of War Davison ("Go, therefore, not in sorrow but in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gold Star Sailing | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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