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Tulsa roared with mirth at the idea of such a campaign. Col. Hoop did no campaigning but his 150 students, delighted with the laboratory demonstration, held mass meetings for him, spoke at political rallies, got a professor of Spanish to stump a Mexican district. Last week Tulsans voted in their primaries. The vote for Police & Fire Commissioner: A. P. Bowles 3,637; Tom Munroe 4,680; O. W. Hoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Professor in Politics | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...back. She was two and her sixth cousin Franklin was four when they first met. Franklin rode her on his back. Says she: "I was a solemn child without beauty and painfully shy and I seemed like a little old woman entirely lacking in the spontaneous joy and mirth of youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eleanor Everywhere | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...your present news digest a more serious evolution of the former mirth sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...really tender and artistic sides. Modern society views the overwhelming dominance of women in this story of Hippolyta and her court, or in the play of Lysistrata, as unnatural to the point of ridiculousness, and so in the "Warrior's Husband" we have a ridiculous farce, bubbling with mirth and Broadway wit, but none the less, reminiscent of an Elk's pageant in a small town. For all the entertainment they give, Amazon's pictured here might do more than just swagger around and say "Oh Yeah" in chesty voices, and administer hefty slaps on hefty female backs. The farce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 7/11/1933 | See Source »

...mirth the while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spartan | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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