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Thoroughly professional Journalist Isaac Don Levine, sharp biographer of Joseph Stalin, has for years delivered such pungent judgments as, "No Government in the world is corroded by such internal abject fear as the Stalin Dictatorship." TIME repeats that his dynamic fact-marshaling has consistently been antiStalinist, which in official Moscow's view is always the chief evidence of "Trotskyism." (See Red Smoke by Isaac Don Levine-McBride, 1932, $2.) As to who first interviewed Joseph Stalin, the technically prior claims of able, Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have...
...Ward was active in the company. In that year the heirs turned it over to the University of Rochester. In 1930 the old building was ruined by fire and Ward's moved into a four-story brick building which it rented from American Chicle Co. Among the pungent odors of formaldehyde and methyl alcohol, the smell of Chiclet chewing gum is still discernible. Most of the building is drab and dirty-windowed, but the administration offices, including that of President Dean L. Gamble, are cheerfully decorated in brown and tan. Bulky minerals and meteorites are kept in the cellar...
...parliamentary crises in London, steered his ill-assorted little company so artfully they became an efficient propaganda and espionage apparatus. Meanwhile he waddled around Longwood, recalling his great days, making the whole company work on his memoirs. Talking as much as Samuel Johnson, the imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth he would leave them. He bluffed them, too, for he had very little to leave. But his mimic war for moral mastery of the island...
...Ministry and stirred up the most public sort of scandal by announcing that the engineering plans of its gentlemen happen to be all wrong. Lord Nuffield made no secret of the fact that he had just given Lord Swinton, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Air, a pungent piece of his engineering mind: "I said to him, 'Well, God help you in case...
...stomach by a cancer of the esophagus, who could receive nourishment only through a tube in the abdominal wall. Through this tube the experimenters introduced garlic soup. Three hours later the patient's breath began to smell, continued to do so for twelve hours. In this case the pungent food was never in the mouth...