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...eyes are like the putrid sores of infants Born into the world from syphilitic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Zululand | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...military out of civilian politics - this insults the intelligence of any one who reads or has served in our military forces. Too bad our men in high places can't think and live in terms of Americanism and fairness instead of in terms of rather small and putrid politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...President Roosevelt last week Professor Howard Lee McBain of Columbia University said: "In the midst of a national crisis giving him opportunities for reform never before possessed by a President, he has chosen for personal and party inte/ests to play the usual game of putrid party politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...leader would have dreamed of preparing a war without making it appear Right & Just in advance. Il Duce, whose entire career has been studded with such aphorisms as "Fascism has already stepped and, if need be, will quietly turn round to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" finally bowed last week to the mob. From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games (see p. 21), the Dictator announced that Italy will expound before the League Council this week the troubled history of Italo-Ethiopian relations for the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Odor of Oil | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...urged Yeats to read Major Douglas (on Social Credit), went away shaking his head because Yeats replied that he was re-reading Shakespeare and Chaucer, found all he wanted of modern life in detectifiction and Wild West stories. Next day he sent his criticism of Yeats's verses: "Putrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ireland's Bard | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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