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...Bitter Economist Michel Alphendery, a communist sympathizer, who says of his job: "We're riders of the storm: all of us together with him in this phantom bank, built on misery, shining out of mire, solid in an earthquake, soundproof in thunder, a living lightning conductor: an accident in capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moneymania | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Unable to cope with the superior speed and passing attack of their England fees, the Crimson rugby team was submerged Saturday afternoon 50-0 in the mire of Soldiers Field before a scant 500 rain-defying fans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Team Submerges Crimson Ruggers 50-0 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...best is afforded by a study of the floating gardens at Xochimilco, a suburb of Mexico City. Concerning this work, the following information is given out in a special circular for the exhibit: "The gardens, dating from at least 1270, halted Cortes, who was rescued from the mire of its sluice ways by Tlaxcalan allies...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

Another Democrat seeking office is William J. Foley, whom Mr. Curley referred to as "the Dumb Dora of Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from the police department. And if Foley is tarred with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTTEN APPLES | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Next morning their platoon is sent over the top. Advancing through murk and mire, suffering heavy losses, they valiantly capture an Allied machine-gun nest only to be halted by news of the Armistice. Mutters one: "After four years-and it just fizzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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