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...report a game. He planned to leave directly afterward to get his copy back to New York. He wished to visit "Copey" so he went to Hollis 15 in the morning. His old Professor waved him out querulously: "Go away, Heywood. Come back at 5:30 this afternoon." Said meek Reporter Broun, "Yes, sir," and lumbered downstairs reflecting glumly that he would have to spend the night in Cambridge, telegraph his copy to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Copey Moves Out | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...Ernest Cossart is excellent as Colonel Tallboys; we wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies, but never our regrets, so exasperatingly well has Minna Phillips caught her tone. Nor must we forget Leo G. Carroll as Private Meek, and the others who declaimed G. B. S.'s dogma in superb fashion...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/2/1932 | See Source »

Terror of the dictatorship of paunchy Miguel Primo de Rivera was the quick-triggered, shiny-hatted Guardia Civil. Since the foundation of the Republic those formidable constables have been meek as lambs. Fortnight ago a riot broke out in Castilblanco. Four of the Guardia Civil lost their lives, and since then they have stood no more nonsense. After Castilblanco there were a half-dozen clashes between guards and strikers throughout Spain. Twenty-four people were killed; in one stretch of 48 hours eleven citizens died, 60 were wounded. In the Cortes. Socialist deputies threatened a general strike and attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Since Castilblanco | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...John Merlin Powis Smith (Old Testament Editor) professor of Semitic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago; Professor Alexander Reid Gordon of the University of St. Andrews: Professor Theophile J. Meek of the University of Toronto; Professor Leroy Waterman of the University of Michigan; Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (New Testament) of Chicago. Printed at University of Chicago Press ($3.50). * John A. Dickson Publishing Co., Chicago: $7.75 to $18.75, depending upon format...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Bibles | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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