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About an hour later, Haley discovered what he wanted. "Suddenly I found myself looking down: Tom Murray, Occupation???blacksmith,' and beneath him, 'Irene, M?for Mulatto,' and their children. The youngest was Elizabeth, age six. And that really grabbed me. That was Aunt Liz. I used to sit on her front porch and play with her long gray hair. The experience galvanized me. Grandma's words became real. It wasn't that I had not believed her. You just didn't not believe Grandma. But there was something about the fact that what Grandma had been talking about was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...writes: "[Graft] can scarcely be prevented when private citizens deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation???money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...occupation???this?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impregnable of Eye | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Ames has simplified his task by employing players that are for the most part widely unknown. All of them are good and some of them are extraordinary. Ernest Lawford, the only one of whom most people have heard, is conspicuously excellent as the susceptible Lord Chancellor with the pleasant occupation?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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