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...American." The Foreign Secretary actually confirmed the Ambassador's assertion that "a further effort will be made," but he did it so ungraciously that he seemed to repudiate him. Naturally the British opposition Press headlined "Sir Esme Repudiated!" and the Labor Daily Herald seized the chance to moan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme & Sir Austen | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...sweating oxen strained over furrows; hives were loud with bees; joyous honeyed mead was brewed in the glades. With the arching zest of dolphins the Slavs plunged in the waters of the Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled in their river bank encampments, shuddered at the moan of the werewolf, the fleet shadow of Baba-Jaga, man-eating witch. Meanwhile their more venturesome brethren, scowling pirates of the Aegean and Baltic, forgot their ferocity beneath a vibrant pattern of stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Slav Epic | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst. "Forged!" he leers again, as the sergeant unearths a wallet stuffed with bills. A low moan from the upper hall; the police lumber up to find another body: the ambassador's son. Detective Smith goes to the phone: "Give me transAtlantic, operator−I want Scotland Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...unhappy love life, a severe case of pyorrhea, and an insatiable appetite for the flesh of the Australian wombat. Only the most agonized and pathetic courage enables him to smile and dance in the performance of his duties. This picture concerns a Grimaldi whose unhappy habit is to moan and wail whenever approached by an emotional crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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