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...enormous word. Small League fry had no idea what he was saying, but big League wigs listened through earphones to simultaneous translations of the speech, getting it by the flick of a switch in either French or English. Everyone agreed that it was a great speech-one of the noblest, most factual, irrefutable and moving ever made before the League of Nations. Yet it was totally without effect on Geneva's sleek, hard, slippery statesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Answering Ethiopia | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...benefits of civilization, 1935 produced a peculiar Spirit of the Year in which it was felt to be a crying shame that the Machine Age seemed about to intrude upon Africa's last free, unscathed and simple people. They were ipso facto Noble Savages, and the noblest Ethiopian of them all naturally emerged as Man of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Man of the Year: Haile Selassie | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Edith. Marchioness of Londonderry, a fresh start was not to be made so easily as by buying an old inn with raftered ceilings and picturesque narrow stairs. One of the noblest mansions in all London is historic Londonderry House. There Mr. MacDonald, after he was considered by the Labor Party to have betrayed it and gone over to Pride & Privilege, found a new home so warm and bright with the glamor of Mayfair that the least he could do in return as Prime Minister, was to take Edith's husband into the Cabinet (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ishbel's Inn, Edith's Inkpot | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

After his death she was variously pictured as a monster, a depraved, ugly, unscrupulous plotter, a madwoman. In Joseph Shearing's short biography this daughter of an impoverished provincial noble is presented, with unqualified admiration, as pure, eloquent, composed, inspired by the noblest of human motives, facing both her crime and its consequences with unearthly serenity. Seven years of seclusion in a convent had deepened her knowledge of and admiration for the noble heroes of antiquity, without giving her an understanding of her own time. On July 10, after giving some of her cherished possessions to her friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathtub Killer | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...follow Mr. Cagney's doings from the time he goes down to Washington as a rookie among the federal boys, through a series of hair-raising vicissitudes entailed in the wiping out of some 14 public enemies, until we see him as the noblest G Man of them all, marrying the lovely creature who has been tending his wounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/21/1935 | See Source »

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