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Last straw is SECommission. This backward moppet, 39, reads first SECcommission. goes back and reads SEEcommission or secOMission; by then, remembers-until next week's issue-that in last week's issue, he finally managed to slur it into SEHcommission; by then, also realizes that he doesn't really give two hoots in Hell what the SEC Commission does and skips the page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good & Bad Indians | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...came from his biggest customer, Primo Camera. Jack Dempsey, Jackie Coogan, Max Baer each gave him $1, Al Jolson 50?. Once he sketched Sketcher James Montgomery Flagg who thereupon jumped off the boardwalk, sketched Sketcher Faier. But when Flagg finished for Faier a picture of a mother & moppet, the mother declared it a bad likeness, angrily tossed Flagg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sand Sculptors | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

This year that dominant moppet, Rachael Low, 13, her sister Prudence, 15, and their mother accompanied Low on a banging, booming holiday. First shots were in the harbor of Lisbon, where two Portuguese war boats fired live projectiles in a brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lowdowns | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days, his son Orestes is a curly moppet, his daughter Electra (Joanna Roos) a grown girl. His wife has taken Aegisthus as her lover, is quick with his child. Clytemnestra hacks Agamemnon to death in his bath; Electra recovers his body from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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