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...Grannich laughed hysterically, was too overcome to speak in English, shouted: "Ich hob aruntergenummen die shich jar alle menschen?" (I removed my shoes in front of all the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1931 | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic has only lately been used by radically-minded undergraduates as an issue through which an entire cultural system can be criticized. Last week, in the second issue of a new insurgent undergraduate magazine, The Harkness Hoot, some of Yale's youngsters played hob with copyist architecture, drew a distinction between Harkness & Light. Offered as "Yale's Only Attempt at a Living Art" was a photograph of some scaffolding which was used to remove books from the old library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness & Light | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...felt. To whom does a good journalist turn for the best account of the big prizefight? To the champion, of course. In choosing the author of the article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write on Boxing. Whether or not they would have asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patriarch Revised | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...months Huey P. Long has been Louisiana's governor. To many it seemed ten months too long. He had ruled the state as a political dictator, had tramped into the Legislature at Baton Rouge to issue his orders, had played hob with the State's appointive boards and commissions. For ten months his opponents cringed before him, treasuring their grievances. Last week the gusty wind of popular favor veered 180 degrees and a hurricane of public condemnation swept down upon the young man who styled himself the "Kaiser of Louisiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Louisiana's Kaiser | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...cinemasterpieces. He confesses that on his arrival in the loud metropolis he slept in a flop house in company with other tramps; now, on the contrary, he has a fine house where there are eleven bedrooms and a Jane in every one. Richard Bennett plays Jarnegan with guttural roars, hob-nails, stubble-beard and a chest expansion. All this is profane and exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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