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...several gees get killed to help the plot along. Second, I get a few real laughs at this Mr. Robinson who almost fails in the brewery business before he tastes his own beer and discovers what is the trouble with his product's demand schedule. I give the big ha-ha to this Allen Jenkins, who is very much of a laugh and a snarler than whom there is none better. The plot meanders along at just the right pace so I can get in a chortle at all the jokes and still hear the next line, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Even Christian patience has its limits. Last week, angered by the niggardly contributions of his parishioners. Canon Robert J. Dunford of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sheffield, England did what he had long threatened to do. He carefully picked all the ha'pennies from the collection, marched to the church door, pitched them into the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ecclesiastical Lice | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...large "D" with a small "-" after it, as Professor Bell said: "of course you'll have a chance to do better on your second draft. By the third draft you should have a pretty decent job done. This material is not easy for you undergraduates to grasp, you know. Ha! Ha!" He smiled as though he wished to be encouraging but couldn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/2/1938 | See Source »

...palatial 3O4-ft. steam yacht Liberty was built in 1908 by the late eccentric Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was such a slave-driver that his retinue of male secretaries called their floating home the Liberty, Ha Ha. The late Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar, wealthy coal man, bought the yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...cultivated his whiskers to bring out his resemblance to Sir Francis Drake. His phobia was ineficiency; his favorite pastime, composing ads for the latest wrinkle in Mansell ma-chine guns: "Mansell's Deadly Death Rose". . . A child can use it . . . Invaluable to all Dictators . . . A Corpse for a Ha'penny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Munitions Man | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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