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...Independence Party. Angry that the Professor should seek to split the Nationalist Party (which also carries the independence banner ) Student Francisco Pagan Rodriguez assaulted Patriot Pereda. In no wise had seven foodless days permanently incapacitated the Professor. With one roundhouse right he floored his assailant, proceeded to pummel him until they were separated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Wanted: Statehood | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...measure, blue for the successive beats; red to mean soft, green to mean loud, red and green together to hold, lights out to stop. Besides these each stand will have two smaller lights to convey individual messages to the players, say when the conductor wants the kettledrummer to pummel out a thundering crescendo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Switchboard Conducting | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...clerk. Then he took a $60-a-week job with Paramount Publix, which led to ghosting at the piano, orchestrating Maurice Chevalier's Big Pond, synchronizing shorts. Five years have obliterated his Harvard stamp. He chews gum, wears tan spats, pin-checked suits, hires a trainer to pummel him every morning so that he will appear dapper when he gets chances to conduct in cinemansions. Johnny Green's bathroom is his pride. It is papered with the covers of the 15 songs he has had published. Some of them: "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye," "I'm Yours," "Living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Carpenter's Dot | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...from discussion, declaring: "The Government takes full responsibility for the negotiations [with Compania Telefonica National de Espana for a new contract] . . . will stand or fall on the question." The Cortes voted 181 to 11 to let the Government stand, but not until after two excited deputies had started to pummel each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...20th Century husbands ever lay violent hands on their wives the comicstrip researcher will never discover it. By a curious chivalry of newspaper cartooning, neither Jiggs nor any other male may pelt, pummel or kick a female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Jiggs & Maggie | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

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