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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin while Nazis laugh up their brown sleeves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Peeping Planes | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked at the three-foot rents in the earth and whooped, "the devil's laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Devil's Laugf~ | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Louis, Mrs. Nellie B. Stull, marriage broker, founder of the Widow & Widower's Club of America, complaining that business is bad, said: "A man admires the woman who makes him think but he keeps away from her. He likes the woman who makes him laugh. He loves the girl who hurts him. But he marries the woman who flatters him. It was always competition more than love that got men into matrimony. Now with so many women hanging around, flattering them, there isn't any more competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...historically intriguing study of the Revolution in its infancy is infused with qualities which U. S. cine-maddicts may find new in Russian cinema: an ability to take its message for granted, to establish a sensible relation between the political preoccupations and the other concerns of its characters, to laugh at itself. Technically as adept as Chapayev, with an equally good performance by Boris Chirkov (last month made an "Honorary Artist of the Republic"), The Youth of Maxim also contains a musical score and sound arrangements contributed by U. S. S. R.'s brilliant young composer. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Dolores and Pedro laugh at locksmiths to such purpose that when he goes off to the wars again she is no longer heaven's bride except in name. Her confessor, the dreaded Fray Sebastian, discovers her state, and his holy wrath is fanned by unholy jealousy. He dedicates his life to bringing these two paramours to a dreadful death. To anxious readers it may look for a time as if he would be successful, but Author Clayton steps in manfully in time's nick, turns tables right & left, ends his romantic melodrama with a thumping Hollywooden finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From an Old Mine | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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