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Rife is the rumour in well-informed Lowell House circles that the House Committee and the tutors are considering adopting Will Hay's now-famous sweater prohibitions for young lady guests in the Bellboy Louis Quinze dining room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sweaters May be Taboo For Girls Eating in Bellboyland | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

Kinda early leaving the hay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Recruiting Song | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...annual report, the Record, listed 476 former New College men in the armed forces and eight killed in action, added that: "There being no artificial light out of doors, the beauty of the architecture by moonlight is remarkable." Magdalen College has let the Magdalen ground go to hay, formed a joint crew and a joint cricket team with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School Life in England | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...until Britain traitorously declares war on the Boers does the Nazi propaganda begin to make hay. British troops come to the farm of Krüger's pacifistic, English-educated son, Jan (Werner Hinz), molest his wife, drive him into the Boer forces. In a concentration camp his wife and children are starved, whaled with rifle butts by the sadistic British. Dead prisoners lie in open ditches while bored guards cover them with quicklime. The camp commandant lives the life of Riley with a mistress and a puffy bulldog to whom he feeds juicy steaks. Meantime Lord Kitchener announces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beast of Britain | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...program with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard and Surgeon General Thomas Parran (just back from England), covering Britain's food needs and U. S. ability to supply them. At the Department of Agriculture, experts pointed to U. S. grain reserves (greatest in history), to stocks of fats, oils, hay, meat supplies. If food was a weapon, the U. S. was well armed. Question was: Could the U. S. use this weapon as effectively for democracy as the Nazis use hunger against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AND PEACE: Food: A Weapon | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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