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...moved to a small 30-acre farm on the edge of a little village. It tells less about cooking, more about people, their gossip, scandals, fighting, country dances. Its highlights are Nell Peters' illegitimate baby, Cousin William's scandalizing city wife, the axe murder of Aunt Het. Like The Country Kitchen, its charm is that it dramatizes the horse-&-buggy atmosphere of an old almanac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...find a U. S. publisher, D'Annunzio runs to 583 pages, carries conviction in none of them. To U. S. readers it is a striking demonstration of Author Antongini's ability to write much and say little, an even more striking demonstration of his ability to get het up over trifles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horse Opera | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Birthday. Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 57; at Het Loo, her country seat, near Apeldoorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...that, stepping to the microphone in Amsterdam, Her Royal Highness became the first Crown Princess, and possibly the first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf verheugende-gezond-heidsredenen geweest, die u zeker wilt verstaan en billijken." ("Nothing would ever have kept me from enjoying every detail of the festive program with which you have welcomed us to Amsterdam had it not been for reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Expectant Broadcast | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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