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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME was using "vulgar" to indicate a hearty British, not a self-conscious U. S. phenomenon. Fortnight ago from Capri Miss Fields telephoned the London Daily Express regarding TIME'S story. Sensibly, good-humored-ly she commented: "The customers are satisfied, aren't they? Besides, I'm not vulgar. When I'm trying not to be vulgar, everybody tells me off. I don't care what they say about me. People who see me like me. That's all that matters. I just go on in my own sweet way. My act has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...second-best in the opinion of most listeners is the score Cole Porter has composed for his 12th musical show. Victim of his own previous high standards, Composer Porter will doubtless have the misfortune of hearing Red, Hot and Blue's comic number, "It's De-Love-ly," unfavorably compared with "A Picture Of Me Without You" which he wrote last year for Jubilee, and his current torch song, "Down in the Depths, On the 90th Floor," rated way below his "I Get a Kick Out of You" in Anything Goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Pope to Pilgrims- Into the Swiss hall of Castel Gandolfo moved aging Pope Pius XI last week to address 500 Spanish refugees, priests and laymen. In a 40-minute speech he flayed Communism without once mentioning it by name. With trembling hands, but in a voice surprising- ly strong, he read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 'Doing Wonders | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...ly ever since the turn of the century Now, at least a substantial portion of the department has been made to understand the necessarily realistic implications of the Conservative View by a man who sees them not in the cheap syllogisms of an Economics A, but in the suffering and starvation of a once flourishing empire strangled culturally and economically by the forces of revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN CHOOSE THOMAS BILODEAU CLASS PRESIDENT | 3/1/1934 | See Source »

What Professor Schumpeter has done for the Economics Department has been to lead it forth from the forest of conceptual windmills and scarecrows in which it has been wandering fruitless- ly ever since the turn of the century Now, at least a substantial portion of the department has been made to understand the necessarily realistic implications of the Conservative View by a man who sees them not in the cheap syllogisms of an Economics A, but in the suffering and starvation of a once flourishing empire strangled culturally and economically by the forces of revolution...

Author: By Joseph ALOIS Schumpeter, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS | Title: Portraits of Harvard Figures | 3/1/1934 | See Source »

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