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...shouldering seabags or paper suitcases, started for the gate in a formless mob. Then Murphy had an inspiration. "Wait!" he yelled. "We'll go back in order. Form in lines of six each." Standing at the foot of the gangway, Murphy shook hands with every man as he went aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chum, You've 'Ad It | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...might turn out to be his most costly. Nicaraguan resistance is becoming more insistent. The resistance is not the formless anger of ragged peasants, but the pocketbook hate of ranchers and businessmen who have seen Somoza muscle into their territory. And after such a bald usurpation of power, Somoza has few friends in the Governments of sister American republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Fat Dolly | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emily & Tom | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...idea of migration, expatriation, or those deportations by which governments . . . snatch populations from their lands and homes ... the forsaking of healthy traditions and venerable customs ... the degradation of men in the humiliating status of a formless 'mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Peter's City | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Honest History. Husky, grey-haired Walter Karig, 46, a veteran Washington correspondent, is now a Navy commander. He co-authored the first volume of Battle Report (TIME, Dec. 11), is now working on the second. His style is breezy, formless, effective. Like Sinclair Lewis' books, Lower than Angels is remarkable for its accumulation of commonplace social history, and for its unsparing honesty. It is sometimes little more than a catalogue of impressions, saved from tedium and pretentiousness by Karig's humor. Marvin Lang has all the characteristics of Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street Revisited | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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