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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

That even this face-saving ghost of the Administration's pet tax project might well be further modified the Committee was well aware when it reported the bill. What it did not expect was that a 326 to 104 Democratic majority in the House would, especially in an election year, prove so much more responsive to the wishes of business than to the wishes of the Administration as to kill the third basket entirely. This last week was precisely what occurred. So eager was Congress to show that it is still a representative body that it was willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Empty Basket | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...idea of Immortality for the Thing is conditioned by the religious, ethical, and emotional arguments. The doctrine of the Trinity fits well the idea of modern pantheism, for in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Christian mystic achieves union with God and at the same time overcomes his individuality, which limits and restricts man, in three ways. The moralist says that the man who works for fame and wealth lives only for time, but he who works for ideals of goodness and beauty lives for eternity. The heart, with the poet its soldier, claims that Love is the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

Repeal of Prohibition in the U. S., legalizing of horse racing in California and the sudden suppression of public gambling in Mexico have reduced the border town of Tijuana (literally "Aunty Jane") from an egregious haunt for U. S. tourists to a bedraggled ghost city of boarded-up saloons and flapping signs. Some excitement occurred two months ago when 400 unemployed barricaded themselves in the big Agua Caliente (literally "Hot Water") hotel and defied the garrison of 28 soldiers to oust them. Since then Aunty Jane has been tomb-quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Death at Aunty Jane | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Geology, fought the issue last year, will not be present at the hearing tomorrow. He once told the committee on education that the teachers who had aided curing of the depression "were entitled to a vote of thanks; instead they were told in the cold voice of the ghost in Hamlet: 'swear, swear, swear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revival of Oath Bill Repeal Brings Flavor of Struggle | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

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