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Jimmy had many a brush with the police after that, and some narrow escapes, but they never got him. Meantime he had fallen in love (seriously, this time) with an Indian lass, and she with him. Her stern parent, in view of Jimmy's uncertain social position, frowned on the match, and a blackguard named Montenegro, an even harder case than Jimmy, married the girl. It was a blow to Jimmy but he went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Case | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...feature picture it is entertaining, little more. It is the familiar story of book larnin's invasion of the back woods. The grizzled mountaineers fight and live and love after the fashion of "Esquire's" variety, and are somehow trying to one's credulity. Sylvia Sidney, as the barefoot lass who succumbs to the winning ways of the furriner from the city (Fred MacMurray) and forsakes Mammy and Pappy for the bosoms of the edjicated, is attractive in her round-faced way, but is more in her element when she finally turns to honest-to-goodness pajamas and faithfully intimate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Galveston flood in 1900 she put on male clothes, shouldered a pickax, was the first reporter through the lines. Climbing over piles of corpses, she filed an exclusive story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Annie Laurie | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Bach, "To Thee Alone Be Glory" (Cantata 41); Morley, My Bonny Lass; Brahms, Two Love Songs from Opus 65; Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe" (second set); English Folk Song, Brennan On The Moor; Wagner, Chorale and Finale from "Die Meistersinger"; College Songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO PRESENT SECOND YARD CONCERT | 5/21/1935 | See Source »

...addition the club will sing "Chorale and Finale from Dic Meistersinger," by Wagner; "My Bonny Lass," by Morely; three love songs from Brahms' "Opus": "Nightingale, thy sweetest song," "A tremer's in the branches," and "From yon hills"; and choruses from "Iolanthe," by Sullivan. Egbert W. Fisher '36 and William G. Kirby '35 will perform as accompanists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO PRESENT CONCERT THIS EVENING | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

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