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What did that mean-Bessarabia? Oracle Litvinov did not explain. Perhaps he was alluding to the several hundred pinpricks and quarrels which have estranged Bucharest and Moscow. But whatever he meant, 'his words provoked no slightest frown or trace of annoyance on the smiling face of Carol A. Davila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Litvinov's Protocol | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

With a smile or a frown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

...would have been permissible for sugarmen to frown, last week, at nearly every piece of news which concerned their industry. Profound is the depression in the sugar business. Raw sugar has fallen from 5.09? a pound in Jan., 1927, to 1.91? last fortnight, the lowest price on record. Over the same period, refined sugar has slipped from 6.36? a pound to 5.10? , last week's figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sugar & Spreckels | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...public race track. He wore a light blue hat, dark blue coat, many-colored bow tie. He seemed happy to see the horses run and lather; but he placed no bets. He, a Welsh Baptist, has long found his strongest support among sections of the British public which frown upon horse racing. Yet he caused more excitement at the track than the horses themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Last week, with frown and earnest speech, a group of Bretons foregathered in Chateaulin,* Brittany. Their purpose, characteristic, was serious. But Paris giggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bedless Autonomists | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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