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...season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Retreat | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Minnesota has been picked by experts to win the national championship again this year. Minnesota football addicts, however, are already calling attention to prospects for 1937, because they feel the present team is not up to average. It lacks an iron man, like famed Herbert Joesting or Pug Lund, in the backfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Minnesota Miracle | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...willed flend running amuck at sea, where reason is powerless to restrain him. In spite of his round, boyish face, bestial cruelty disguised as lawful discipline seems to be Laughton's forte. This was demonstrated in "Les Miserables" as well as in the present picture. Those thick lips and pug nose of his are becoming the cinematic symbol of brutality...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Overdone in spots and half-baked in others. Sweet Mystery of Life proves chunky, pug-nosed Gene Lockhart (Ah, Wilderness!) a comedian who can make much out of little. One member of the cast who seems to enjoy himself is bulky Broderick Crawford, son of owl-eyed Comedienne Helen Broderick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...other by piano advertisements it is not easy to paint the portrait of a man whose influence on contemporary thought is exceeded perhaps only by that of his pupils. Look through the frame, gentleman, and envisage the character; It is Athens over 2000 years ago. A pug-nosed goggled-eyed philosopher has just sneaked away from his unsympathetic wife and is heading for the market place. There he knows he will meet Plato and Glancon and other men with whom he can examine this all too unexamined life. As they retire to the quiet of some nearby olive grove they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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