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¶Clapped his hands as unemployed turned somersaults in a physical training class and exclaimed, "Jolly good! You are very clever to be able to do all these things. We couldn't do them!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Errand of Mercy | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Out of bed in a flutter with the chiming of ten o'clock. That worthy master of slaves, my tutor, sends me to sit in on lectures at the most ill-advised times of the day and night. A stop in the hall to glance at the morning paper and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

"Jolly bad show, chaps, what a day!"

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/10/1936 | See Source »

The Prime Minister was at his comfortable best when he got slowly to his feet, leaned heavily on the dispatch box and observed like a true John Bull: "I don't think there was any Fascism in Italy before Communism began. The same thing was true of Germany. Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Crown & State | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Music's great human-interest story ten years ago was that of Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debutante | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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