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Socialist leader Leon Blum joyfully said that the Left Wingers "shook the Radical plum tree until Laval fell out." In judging the conduct of Laval during past months it appears that he never was really up in that plum tree. He was merely hiding behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAKING THE TREE | 1/24/1936 | See Source »

...these who found it expedient to remain in Cambridge. Christmas Dinner was an imposing meal, a tribute to the ingenuity of Roy Westcott and his minione. Starting with cream of mushroom goup, the meal ran the traditional gamut of turkey and ended gloriously with mince pic, pumpkin pic, plum pudding with hard sauce, vanilla ice cream with fudge sauce, small cakes, apples, oranges, grapes, mixed noig, cluster raisins, and cheepe and crackers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes a Bronx seduction scene in Bronx. Robert Cantwell makes a few pointed, sensible remarks on modern marriage. Versifiers Leonard Bacon, Philip Wylie, Baron Ireland do their feeble best to keep their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men on Women | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Playing skirts on a bagpipe that has been in the Carnegie family for 40 years, sporting kilts and the black, green and plum Carnegie tartan, barrel-chested Hugh Grant arrived in Manhattan to take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...endorsement of intellectual bigwigs, who created a sensation when they refused to award him the Dutch equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In a brief introduction to Express to the East, den Doolard mentions his months of wandering through Macedonia, "sometimes thirsty and penniless and dirty, sometimes drinking iced plum brandy in the luxurious restaurant wagon of the Orient Express," hints that he has taken part in the activity of the organization he describes. Noting his detailed account of conspiratorial methods, it is a likely conclusion that den Doolard did not get his knowledge of them exclusively from books. The story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: V.M.R.O. | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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