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...stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis, unschooled, presumably taught himself to speak with a mouthful of nut coal. In other years his resonant, impressive voice, his downright bearing, his mastery of histrionic pauses, of scathing comment, were used in miners' meetings to make him undisputed leader of the United Mine Workers. They were also used in private wage bickering with coal operators. Neither setting gave him the public recognition which he deserved. General Johnson settled the threatened coal strike by amendments to the bituminous coal code that cut hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Coal Demosthenes | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Raft's rise from coal miner, gigolo, and cabaret performer, to night club owner is accomplished by his repeated refusal to mix business with pleasure, firing his dancing partners when they interfere with his consuming desire to be famous. Becoming a sensation in London and Paris with Helen (Carole Lombard), he enters the World War as a publicity stunt, expecting the fracas to be ended in a few weeks. Helen loses her hero-worship, and marries an English noble...

Author: By N. G. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

HARVARD B. U. McTernen, cf. ss., Leppo Darling, lf. 2b., Morin Owen, 2b. rf., A. Murphy Bilodeau, ss. 3b., Maddocks Regan, 3b. 1b., Miner MacIntosh, rf. lf., T. Murphy Carr, 1b. cf., Nowell Kessler or Blackwood, c. c., Brown Baxter or Avon, p. p., Kelly or Freidman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1937 Baseball Team To Meet B. U. Hurlers This Afternoon | 4/20/1934 | See Source »

...mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills, even in the warm Bahaman waters where he paints, he stays down only 20 minutes at a stretch, makes four or five trips a day. Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work (see cut). There was no special realism about the Olsen submarinescapes last week to indicate they were actually done under water. Coral Outpost was a pastel blue-green, showed a film of sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Submarinescapes | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...buildings which happens to be located in the wrong place, has never been considered. Now that the library is open in the evenings to habitants of those houses must take a detour of about six blocks to reach the welcoming doors of Widener. This obstacle seemingly miner, but in times of haste, or low temperatures, sufficiently annoying remains in the path to knowledge in order that the Yard may be protected from marauders and that Freshmen in Wigglesworth Halls may sleep undisturbed by the tramp of feet in the archways beneath. The purpose of keeping the gate directly behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FAST CLOSED DOOR | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

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