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...front cover) The compass point of all Europe last week was a huge square brick and stucco manor house in East Prussia atop which perched pensively a knobby-kneed stork called "Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crux of Crisis | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...photograph itself is concerned, I do not know if I ever saw a parade of bowlegged, knock-kneed, crooked-spine, spindle-shanked, potbellied, emaciated and physically deformed half wits, unnatural looking people than the photograph which you had the nerve to publish in your supposed to be high class and respectable magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...will show the public how Napoleon's gay uniforms and the romance he drew around war brought entire battalions to their slaughter. . . ." (In 1930 German Nazi collectors of toy soldiers called toy soldiers "the best of all means for fostering thought of preparedness and counteracting the weak-kneed pacifism so prevalent in Germany these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake Army | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully and movingly sung as regards its principal roles since that unforgettable March afternoon at the end of a century when Jean De Reszke's dying Siegfried turned our hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: king's End | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...Ozzie" Nelson's band at the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan, heard the announcer say one midnight: "The next number will be 'Reefer Man,' * at the request of one of our distinguished guests, Senator Huey Long." The Senator's companion that evening: plump, dimple-kneed little Dancer Ann Pennington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

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