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...Gassier, read Cane Juice with rising indignation. Last fortnight he circulated a mimeographed attack upon it. Excerpts: "Utter ignorance of Creole customs. . . . Did the author perchance pick his 'young ladies' in a bawdy house? . . . Caricature. . . . Unsullied reputation of our Creole maidens. . . . Nauseating. . . . Filthiness. ... A monstrous slander of the purest womanhood to be found in the U. S. . . . Slimy animalism and mental filth. . . . The author might be a handsome young man for aught we know. The skunk also is a beautiful animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cane Juice | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...this month. To the international Press went most of the credit for the Laval-Hoover meeting. Fortnight ago in Paris, on the eve of Premier Laval's departure for Berlin (see p. 19), it was reported that M. Laval "was considering an American trip." Apparently this report was purest fiction, but there was nothing for fleshy Ambassador Walter Evans Edge to do but go over to M. Laval's office in the Ministry of the Interior and invite him informally to Washington. Last week a formal invitation followed the French Cabinet's formal assent to the journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Key Men | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...body was tattooed the name and number of his lodge in New York City. The Chinese Masons not only sent the body to New York City, but also sent a bodyguard of two Chinese Masons all the way to New York City with it. That is Fraternalism in its purest form. EDWARD M. TAGGART East Orange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...meet Dastard Chang in Dairen came representatives of China's two highest-minded, purest-hearted itinerant warriors: the "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, former "Model Governor" of Shansi Province (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dastard & Venerable Mother | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Brass Ankle is the finest of the few American tragedies of this theatrical season. For while the author pours forth the deepest sympathy and pity for his doomed characters, hedged with a thorn-row of purest ethnological malice, he is also erecting an inevitable dramatic structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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