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...play called All Rights Reserved (TIME, Nov. 19), he pondered the problem of a sober essayist who goes berserk when a book by his wife leads him to believe that she ha's grown promiscuous. So Many Paths concerns an ambitious singer named Clara Kenny (Norma Terns of Mow Boat) An unsuccessful audition drives Clara to such desperation that she flings herself into the arms of a rich protector. He sends her abroad for training. When she returns, Clara makes an operatic sensation. Meantime, her young sweetheart has married her sister. Question: are the roses, champagne, fame and applause worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Lush dreams to millions of Chinese and a headache to the League of Nations was contained in an announcement last week that the Japanese-Manchukuo Government was doing everything in its power to increase the cultivation of opium in Jehol. The old Chinese tax of ten yuan ($2) a mow (1/6; acre) on poppy fields will be reduced one-half by Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Headache | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...proposed, the restrictions are petty. One may mow a lawn or stoke a furnace or sweep a floor for a landlady and make that and the action fine, but not for a neighbor in order to make money to pay the landlady. And there are other provisions as absurd. All told, they would affect so few as not to be worth a protest were it not for the implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Students | 9/29/1932 | See Source »

...much seepage accumulated from distant snows. When the waters disappear the length and breadth of that blistering desert will be a wilderness of wildflowers, bluebells, poppies, buttercups, Indian paintbrush. A little moisture caused this to happen two years ago. Then the heat will come along again and mow them down with a fiery scythe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Valley | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...Angeles, 50,000 people saw an extraordinarily powerful Southern California attack, headed by Gaius Shaver and Orv Mohler who made two touchdowns each, mow and shave Oregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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