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...Tall?rigid?lean?gray of face?heavy-lidded eyes of an almost Asian deadness?stonelike?impassive???like a figure from the pages of Dostoievsky?like a poor Russian nobleman," so the newspapermen found him, the greatest living Platonist, the world's most provoking mystic. The newsmen plied him with their trademarked questions. He was polite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dean of the Depths | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Story. Bertha was a big, blonde, Baltic lummox; one of those inarticulate girls; a strong, hardworking, silent, lonely servant?apparently impassive???regarded by mistress after mistress as just a good plain cook?yet possessed of a certain dumb, unconscious power of understanding. She passed through the lives of many other people, and, somehow, altered them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lummox | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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