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...Capitalistic invasion" of Russia may come at any hour, looks to the Commissar of War as its prospective savior, cheers him wildly when he rides out hard-eyed and unsmiling, his breast bedight with three Soviet medals, his bul let head surmounted by the turnip-shaped Red Army helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man Of War | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Onetime Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and a half-dozen other States whose people spoke last week on this question . . . [and] hope to cajole repeal-Republicans, millions of good men & women, into an attitude of complacency concerning the thing they regard as vital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The G. O. P. Divides | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...AFTER VICTORY, STRAP YOUR HELMET TIGHTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Strap Helmets Tighter! | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...dander of Old Paul had been rising for several days. In the first place the President of Germany, who is Honorary President of the patriotic but illegal Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmet") military organization, had quarreled on Stahlhelm's behalf with the Government of Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg into Dictator | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...came marching home. Sly subterfuges were resorted to by the excited ladies on the Acropolis. Myrrhina remembered that she really should go home to lay a new spread on the bed, to which Miss Bainter scornfully replied: "You want to lay something else on the bed!" Kalonika stole the helmet from Athena's head, concealing it beneath her gown. Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last night!" Indicative of the plight of the men was the piteous condition of Kinesias (Ernest Truex). He fidgeted, pranced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Lysistrata in Philadelphia | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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