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...feast day to make political mockery of Jackson Day. Their plan: to hold Lincoln Day dinners, the proceeds of which will be used not to pay Republican debts but to relieve the unemployed after five years of Democratic administration. Main course of the Lincoln Day dinners: fried mush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mush | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...conduct a suit. Serious readers will be fascinated by the exhaustive, well-documented, and clear discussions of the legal posers involved in the Governor's proclamation of martial law and of the nature and power of the State Racing Commission, a model for all quasi-judicial executive bodies whose mush-room growth in the government worries many lawyers. "This bodes some strange cruption to our state," quotes Professor Chafee from Hamlet...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: AMERICA'S INFANT PSYCHOSIS | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

...dawn, often leaving a few pages of his Bible behind him. Growing to believe that clothes were not for comfort but only to cover nakedness, he took to wearing a coffee sack with holes for his arms and legs. He ate no meat, lived chiefly on cornmeal mush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: A is for Apple | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing. His aerial was iced and he could not get a fix on the beam at Newark where the ceiling was very low and where TWA officials were biting their nails. So he nonchalantly flew 200 miles out to sea in his land plane to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: On Top | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...spotted in 14 supremely efficient and separate styles of dancing is Nora (Eleanor Powell), a girl who lives in the Lonely Hearts Club and learns to love a boy. Authors Jack McGowan & Sid Silvers were not trying to be original even when they made the ship that brings Ted, Mush & Gunny home a submarine instead of the usual dreadnought. Everybody seems satisfied with the plot as they pair off in the Lonely Hearts Club with Hey, Babe, Hey! a novelty song and dance that is the season's high for cinemusical contagion. Frances Langford is a good dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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