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...harness bulls. Until glims. Then I batters private plunging like a gandy dancer and red bulls sock into the old heavy-foot himself. 'Tooting ringers for a scoffing?' he says. 'Come wid me, I'll give you a scoffing.' Skating on my uppers I mush talks him out of a hustle buggy ride and into mongee." Catholic charity Investigator Minehan found the kindest. Religion has small place in these adolescent tramps' lives; theirs is the tribal deity of Hemingway. Said one of them: "God is guts." The Second Coming they vaguely apprehend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Bums | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...been all that Germany could have desired. In the eyes of the outside world she has managed to place herself in that invulnerable position, a virtually bankrupt debtor, while at home show has managed to appear sufficiently solvent to keep the mark at par and prevent another inflation. It mush be added that the threat of inflation is perhaps her strongest bargaining point, not only in U. S. but in Europe. Should inflation occur, even though moderately, Germany's adverse balance of trade might be changed overnight to a favorable one, mostly at the expense of France, and more particularly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 4/13/1934 | See Source »

...excellent pictures which the public demands are sufficient to force the purchase of miles of rot. That the huge majority of movies is unpopular and unprofitable does not affect the producers, secure behind the walls of their monopoly, yet the studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture booking would not eliminate all inferior productions, but it most certainly, would raise the general level and would allow the theatre owners to select pictures on the basis of their merits and popular appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIE CRAZY | 4/12/1934 | See Source »

...were exploration and sporting events. His conclusion: "When I picture the life in the North and here, I say-my stomach is better off here but my mentality lives its best up there. . . . The inhabitants of the Koyukuk would rather eat beans with liberty, burn candles with independence, and mush dogs with adventure than to have the luxury and the restrictions of the outside world. A person misses many things by living in the isolation of the Koyukuk. but he gains a life filled with an amount of freedom, tolerance, beauty, and contentment such as few human beings are ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Koyukuk | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

Died. Balto, 14, famed black, white-footed Alaskan husky, lead dog on the last lap of the mush from Nenana to Nome with diphtheria antitoxin for the 1925 epidemic; of old age; in Cleveland's Brookside Park and Zoölogical Gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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