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...many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could not get off the ground. Only light Italian ships were able to fly in pursuit of non-existent Ethiopian planes or to scout for Ethiopians invisible beneath the mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: First White Prisoners | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...preface to Bligh after the mutiny. Bligh on duty and in action, cursing his loyal sailors from the stern of the open boat, riding the tiller in mountainous seas, slitting the neck of a seabird for a sick sailor and finally, as the gulls rise out of the sea mist, croaking through dried lips the one word, "Timor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Norman Angell. British cross mist and Nobel Peace Prize winner will be the main speaker at the score meeting of the Foreign Policy Association in the Copley-Plaza at 1 o'clock today. Bruce C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government, and Oliver Sprague '94. professor of Banking as Finance in the Business School was also present their views on the collective subject: "Shall the United State Forbid All Exports to Italy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Angell Will Speak At F. P. A. Meeting Today | 11/16/1935 | See Source »

...drum. There were broken hearts, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was a moonlite terrace, there were also chaperons. There were long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there were those who, most unfortunately, did not. There was an evening mist; there were missed chances. There were scrambled eggs; there were scrambled dances. There were the best of times, and there were th worst of times. And there was the line, the widows from Winsor; "Good night, Mr. Jones. We're home on Mondays." But it's Smith, Madam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/9/1935 | See Source »

...team included a one-time Scottish Communist, a French marquise, the Copenhagen tap dancer, the Bishop of Rangoon, an admiral, a British M. P., a daughter of the Governor of the National Bank of Egypt and a Burmese lady who told correspondents: "My name means cool, calm, pleasant mist." Between good dinners and spiritual lobbying in Geneva, Dr. Buchman took 50 members of his team on a flying trip to Berne. There in the Parliament House awaited President Rudolf Minger flanked by his cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchmanites at Berne | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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