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...Shall I dream of you as of a star and its glitter...

Author: By M. P. B., | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

Benito Mussolini's eye had lost its. glitter. Eight months had leafed away since his fall from power in Rome. In his Nazi-guarded villa on the shores of North Italy's Lago di Garda, he donned his grey general's uniform, began the day's mock routine of a mock Duce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dyspeptic Duce | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...extreme end of the box is a little man with a hook nose, sunken cheeks, deep sunken eyes. He is French and he wears a string of medals. He looks like an Egyptian mummy, except for the queer glitter in his colorless eyes. Another French officer is fat. His eyebrows slant upward. His normal complexion is purple-red-that of a man bursting with rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Face of Vichy | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Outsized Newcomer Willard Parker, smooth Brian Aherne, some sharp dialogue and, above all, sharp Cinemactress Russell, who has the edgy glitter of black jet, help to keep this unlikely comedy likable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Mackenzie's Oil. The glitter of oil is not new on the Mackenzie River above the old Hudson's Bay post at Fort Norman. Young Alex Mackenzie, who scouted the north country for the fur trade in the late 18th Century, made a note of the surface seepage. But not until 1914, after Turner Valley made Canada conscious of oil, did a geologist venture to Fort Norman. Not until 1920 was the first well brought in, after prodigious pioneering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Gas for the Planes to Asia | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

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