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Warner Brothers have brought out a new one for their nondescript "Clue-Club" called "The Murder of Doctor Harrigan." The Doe is a nasty, surly fellow whom everybody is glad to be rid of. But he is stabbed to death in his own hospital, right under the noses of the "men and women in white," as everybody calls them nowadays. For this and sundry reasons the characters of the play feel it incumbent upon themselves to solve the crime...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...clergymen did not criticize the Administration, and TIME errs in printing the blasphemies of a few nondescript so-called ministers of the gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

With Moseley and Ziggy resting, the first-team backfield was a nondescript aggregation, quartered by George Hedblom in the bucking back position. Only one shift of importance was made when George Roberts, former Milton Academy quarterback, was boosted from the Jayvee squad to signal caller on the Varsity B team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALEY ASSISTS AS HARLOW HAS LONG SECRET PRACTICE | 10/8/1935 | See Source »

...Once iron Soviet discipline barred guides from accepting tips in any form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since it concerned not a nondescript tourist and his nondescript girl guide but potent Comrade Sergei Meshki, for years Chief of Intourist in Moscow and widely credited with being an official of the OGPU Spy Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sultanesque Sergei | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...persons, wanted by the police of their home countries, the Soviet State concealed their names from foreign correspondents who could find out nothing last week except that the best rooms in Moscow's best hotels, for which tourists are charged $15 per day, were being occupied free by nondescript persons of both sexes, of every race and all colors. The last Chairman of the Comintern was the famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," shaggy Comrade Grigory Zinoviev. In 1926 thrifty Joseph Stalin decided to squander less Soviet gold on Communists abroad and Chairman Zinoviev, huffing and puffing, resigned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Private Party | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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