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...away from his office. For a fortnight he had been cruising off Florida in his yacht Arminia. There the rumors were relayed to him last week. The Arminia put in at Miami, where her master received newshawks on deck, thumped his chest heartily and crowed: "I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw. I haven't felt so good since last July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Livest Lobby, The significance of a Legion declaration for the Bonus lies in the fact that it will unleash upon Congress the most powerful lobby in Washington. The Legion's chief lobbyist is smart, dapper, arrogant John Thomas Taylor, a Reserve Corps lieutenant-colonel. Before the War he was an undercover man for the late tariff-loving Boies Penrose. His law partner was Thomas W. Miller who, as Alien Property Custodian, spent a year in Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Again, Bonuseers | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Prohibition, livest subject in a lifeless convention, was utterly ignored by Keynoter Dickinson-a possible indication that the G. O. P., regardless of platform declarations, would shy from the issue in the national canvass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Keynote | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Mass. In the Gloria and Et Resurrexit he can feel again the might of the church militant, triumphant and jubilant in its spirited movement. In the Crucifixus is the humbleness and the mystery which explain the church's power to bind the simple peasant. Here, with one of the livest men in the University to lead him, the Vagabond succeeds in escaping the Georgian in order to turn back again to the shadowed richness of the Gothic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/8/1932 | See Source »

...well-informed man and he will snap right back at you: "Biggest, fastest-growing city in North Carolina. Population three years ago, 48,000; now, about 70,000. Home of Camel cigarets and the rest of the Reynolds Tobacco products. Been booming like Billy-get-out lately. Livest town down South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winston-Salem | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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