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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prolixity, in fact is the word which best sums up "Three Loves," the words are too long; the sentences are pompous, and the length of the tales as a whole defeats any impression of unity which the reader might draw from it. These defects tend to obscure the genuine merits...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 6/1/1932 | See Source »

" Footnote col. 3, p. 7 of the April 18 issue of TIME, does the French Line an injustice in that it further helps to spread the impression, already widespread through careless reporting and leave lines in the newspapers, that the "$1,26,000 worth of imported narcotics dismissed as German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

The point is that Governor Murray used the expression as being original with him when it was to the contrary-and his audience didn't know any better. Since I read what Governor Murray had to say about Hoover. I have heard many prominent Democrats in political speeches pay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Richard Arlen is one of the new actors in Hollywood today who, in our estimation, earns all he gets. We have liked him ever since he stood behind a chair in "Wings", just before going off to war, and said "Yes, mother," to a series of questions whose purport was...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/11/1932 | See Source »

Fortunately Foreign Commissar Litvinov has an English wife, gay Ivy Low. She broke the Communist ice, whirled out upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Whoopee | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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