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...wild oats. What is not so titillating or so new. but only a little on the old-fashioned side of Gallic good sense, is his sex theory. A succes de scandale in England since the first translation appeared there last month, in the U. S. Marriage will likely perk up more ears than it burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Premier Blum's Sex System | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...event of a 3rd mule at Warm Springs, may I suggest the name "Perk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...were indeed named for Messrs. Tugwell and Hopkins. No Presidential jenny is yet named Perk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Ladies. Author Mackenzie writes Jacobitingly, speaks with contumely of "Whig" reviewers who deplore his loyalist zeal. U. S. readers may not share Author Mackenzie's emotions nor his unflagging interest in the controversial minutiae of the Jacobite legends, but they will not need Scottish blood to perk up their ears at these echoes of "the Forty-five." Author Mackenzie's is not a formal history of the Young Pretender but a series of portraits of the women who made up a large part of his life. Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Maria (1720-1788), like most royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bonny Prince | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...below par. Organic indigestion drove him from the Royal Navy into the Foreign Office where he was made a third secretary. This proved too strenuous. Sympathetic Edward of Wales took him along on a tour of South America, did all the heavy speech-making himself. Prince George seemed to perk up and catch on. Senoritas praised his dancing, called him "more fascinating than the Prince of Wales." His digestion seemed to improve. He seemed to be able to drink his royal quota of champagne. By careful practice he learned to speak so exactly like the Prince of Wales that equerries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Court Circular | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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