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Asia's grapplers made the politest speeches. But all flayed the West by implication for doing nothing to check Silver's collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Universal Crisis | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Senorita Mercedes Castellanos achieved politest world renown (TIME, April 23) when it was announced at Madrid that she, an orphan & a spinster of 47, would shortly be taken to wife by the Dictator of Spain, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Wives | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Swiss millionaire, has been found dead in the laundry basket is disturbed by ribald yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from the old days when "Pygmalion" was such a success that it ran for two weeks, and the politest of Back Bay hand clapping greeted the first American performance of Pinero's "Big Drum...

Author: By L. H. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

Bennett, correspondent, printed an able pen sketch of Colonel Winship: "He is the embodiment of Sir Philip Sidney's definition of a gentleman. But Blanton Winship of Georgia is not only the politest man in the Army of the United States. He is more than manners. He is a gifted lawyer and a fine soldier. He is an exceptional horseman and always has owned good horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Court Martial | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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