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Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi Out! | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

From Ghoidies and Ghosties, and long-legged beasties and things that go flop in the night?God Lord, deliver us.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nazi Beasties | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Arranger of the game was neither Secretary of War nor Secretary of the Navy, each of whom had failed on several occasions to bring about a reconciliation between the stubborn military Mule and the hard-headed nautical Goat. The contest was first seriously proposed by long-legged Sports Editor Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Charity & Hope | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

On both sides of the continent critics and public now have a chance to judge the mature work of a painter who has become almost as essential to smart dinner table conversation as backgammon: Jose Clemente Orozco. Vibrant, intensely serious Artist Orozco is Mexican, of lineage from the 15th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wall Man | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

Bashan, "a short-haired setter" with a broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forsyte Footnotes* | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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