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...spite of the fact that I recently had a child - and one of my friends is expecting a baby soon - none of us found it "grueling." It is excitingly impressive - it's challenging - it's grand. Your reviewer is a sissy. If he emerges from the Victorian mist and faces reality, he will find that most women are fully aware of the risks that go with the everyday job of bearing a child. They are even more interested than the medical profession and the masculine public in learning the sources of danger and in working toward a solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian in the fuel supply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tbe Moviegoer | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...rang true. Columbus had noted that as he approached the Azores the seaweed turned brown, disappeared a day before he reached port. So found Professor Morison & party 447 years later. They saw on Corvo Island in the Azores the fantastic rock formation that Columbus had seen through fog and mist and which seemed to him to point west. Twenty days from the Canaries to Trinidad-it had taken Columbus 26-convinced the seafaring Professor that Columbus was a very fine seaman, who "could get to a place and then come back and find it again when he wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rediscovery | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Five minutes of poetic blues piano improvisation in the best "Bix" Beiderbecke In a Mist tradition. A must for aficionados...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Stacy, formerly the Goodman piano ace, now with Bob Crosby. Both sides are blues, one quite slow and the other in a faster, more clipped tempo. Slow side, like most of Jesse's blues, is strongly influences by the sort of changes that Bix Beiderbecke used in "In a Mist." The whole side is built up on variations on one or two ideas of this nature. While at times is is genuinely beautiful blues, a great deal of it is too much of an attempt to be pretty for prettiness' sake itself...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

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