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...time brisk Mr. Browning appeared to lay siege to Miss Barrett's fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist, he saw the struggle was hopeless, admitted Mr. Browning to his friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benny Bache | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...entertaining show. Says Author Brinig, through one of his characters: "It occurs to me that a writer ought to have both vegetables and flowers in his books. He ought to have everything in his books. The old idea of being one thing at a time, a romanticist or a realist, hardly fits in with the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jesus in California | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Perhaps because facilities are lacking to use most of Dnieprostroy's giant power, Dictator Josef Stalin, stern realist, stayed away from the "successful opening." From Moscow he wired: DETAINED BY WORK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Balkhazhstrov Conserved | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...realist, Proust sums up, in The Past Recaptured, his creative process, raps shrewdly in passing at more "objective" writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proust | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Fundamentals Association. Patriarchal, resonant, he has debated many a time on Evolution. Proud is he that Clarence Darrow backed down" when he offered him $500 to debate in Denver. Rev. Louis Entzminger of Fort Worth, Tex "Sunday School Expert.' Large, eagle-beaked Brother Entzminger says he is a realist. "I knocked the face off the last man who called me a son-of-a-bitch. That has been since I have been a pastor. I don't live in the millenium, I live in Texas." For his "unChristian" attitude Brother Entzminger was censured from the platform. Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers & Sisters | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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