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Snatched of its leader, muddied by its vice president, a depressed and disorganized Seiyukai made desperate efforts to mend itself for the impending national elections in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Untimely Death | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Rolleo, attended last week by hearties from 1,200 camps, was distinguished by the joyous rite of selecting "Pauline Bunyan," a suitable mate for skyscraping Paul. Ann Mclver was chosen, a strapping beauty who proved her ability to do best the feats that Bunyan demands?sew tremendous buttons, mend great-gaping socks, flip mighty flapjacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rolleo | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...course adopted by Mr. Ramsey MacDonald in 1924 should again com mend itself to him and to Mr. Lloyd George (Leader of the Liberal Party), I should like to obtain co-operation from the outset of the inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...drastic that prominent folk even tried to pry the truth out of Sir William's son Lancelot, previously a pallid nonentity. One day after chatting with his tall, correct, frock-coated father, Lancelot Joynson-Hicks said positively: "There is no doubt that the King is on the mend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: David to George V | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed him and took him with her into the forest. There, with new youth, new courage, he started a second bell, sang praises as he worked. But when the pastor found him, asked him what church the bell was for, he weirdly said "no church," sang on, swearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sunken Bell | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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