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...Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff with fright-fright of what farmers might be saying by their kitchen stoves. As a matter of fact, farmers, still stunned by the Supreme Court's decision, had not recovered enough to say anything more important than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Frozen Tongues | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...almost photographic in their realism and have a brutal treatment which spares nothing, no matter how grim or repulsive. His "Wounded Man in Retreat" shows the head of a soldier, a great wound in his forehead from which the blood drips about his eyes, with an intensity of fright and pain in his expression which could not well be duplicated. The bulging, staring eyes, the dirty, straggly beard and disheveled hair, the open, gaping mouth, all give force and a distressing realism to the picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

Probably the second string sophomore five will see action tonight and be given a chance to redeem itself after the rather poor showing it made Wednesday. This group is not lacking in ability. Their weakness lies in their inexperience and occasional attack of stage fright. Allowed a few more opportunities on the floor and this group will give the Varsity a hard fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WILL MEET RHODE ISLAND TONIGHT | 12/14/1935 | See Source »

...flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town or slept in automobiles along open highways. To add to their fright and misery, snow came down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONTANA: Shocked Helena | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

King Solomon of Broadway, however, manages to be ingratiating when Band Leader Pinky Tomlin is blinking with fright or playing his guitar, when Miss Page is singing and strutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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