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...been stopping at the hotel with his sick wife for several weeks, making his way furtively out of the house through the dim-lit service entrance. With him was his alert, dark-haired son, who had just arrived from the U. S. The son carried a small handbag. In the street they hailed a taxi, vanished into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flight to Athens | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...specialties. The specialist's income is greater than the general practitioner's. Yet "90% of all disease seen by physicians represents the type of disease that any good general practitioner can diagnose suitably and treat suitably with the amount of equipment that he can carry in a handbag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. at New Orleans | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break her arm to get there? She could have hidden the pistol he handed her in her handbag, but instead she hid it in the sling?for romance, for Victor Hugo, immortal originator of gangster fiction. It seems right for her to wear the sling. It seems right that her father, Guy Kibbee, should be a genial, bald-headed Irishman, fond of rococo furniture, comic strips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...ball in the U. S. Legation at Belgrade, H. R. H. Princess Olga, cousin of Dictator King Alexander, suddenly discovered that her gold-mesh, diamond-studded handbag had disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Belgrade Vindicated | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Both doctors repeated with insistence that "Russians like black bread," claimed that their interpreter, "a member of the old Russian aristocracy," so greatly preferred black bread to white that she invariably refused the latter. "She even carried small pieces of black bread in her handbag, for fear we should get to a small hotel where they would have only white bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Particularly Happy | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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