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Through and around the enemy whites' artillery, anti-tank defenses, infantry positions and supply lines the black Panzers darted. Only comfort for the surprised, outflanked troops of the Ninth was the providential presence of a protecting swamp in the engineers' path. The black s- would certainly mire in the muck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: And the --- ---- Engineers | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...last and most notable of her countless poems was Soldiers, Come Back Clean, published by Hearst's New York Journal in the year of the battle of Cambrai. It ran: I may lie in the mud of the trenches, I may reek with blood and mire, But I will control, by the God in my soul, The might of my man's desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetess of Passion | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel Bruce) for his needle, he solves in satisfactory style Conan Doyle's gloom-ridden mystery of murder on the Grimpen Mire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, who gained fame and fortune publishing such magazines as True Story, Physical Culture, Liberty, last week produced something new: a religious monthly, Your Faith. He urged readers: "Rise out of the mire and muck of that which is base and contemptible. Climb on the bandwagon loaded with kindliness and friendliness. The brotherhood of man then smiles at you from earnest, honest eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously and over-humorously, at length and in brief, even in baby talk--whichever best suited his mood. And almost single-handed, he pulled English literature and society a step upward out of its complacent mire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/15/1938 | See Source »

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