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...lives of even Bengal Lancers are soon to reek of gasoline & grease, handsome young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had nevertheless done the best he could for his cavalry friends. He might have enlarged His Majesty's existing Tank Corps and other highly developed mechanized units gradually, while disbanding little by little the men on horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Heroes Unhorsed | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...raindrops couching in cool flowers... High view towards Memorial Chapel from steps of Widener at noon... The caressing melancholy of a glowing fire on a rainy evening... The words: "So Red the Rose", Friend, Kindliness, Philosophy... A symphony concert in a large soft-toned hall, dimly lighted... The musty reek that lingers about dead leaves and last year's ferns... The epitaph: "Go tell the Spartans ye that passest by, That here obedient to their laws we lie"... View of John Weeks bridge from Duster at dusk... A little child relating a pleasant dream... A lovely girl in evening clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Aboard the plane was Movietone Editor Edmund Reek, primed to edit the assassination and compose sound captions on the flight back to Manhattan. Since the dangerous pick-up at sea would itself be news the plane carried a $20,000 sound camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Reels | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...more coherent. Just before the Civil War Northerners were speaking hotly of South Carolina as "that bullying State ... let the damned little thing go." Southern journalists were spiritedly responding: "Not a breeze that blows from the Northern hills but bears upon its wings taints of crime and vice, to reek and stink, and stink and reek upon our Southern plains." In 1830 the argument between Massachusetts and South Carolina in the U. S. Senate was still parliamentary, but by 1856 it had descended to murderous fisticuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Reality v. U. S. Dream | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Harvard Freshman Lacrosse team will have an opportunity to reek sweet revenge when it meets the Tuffs '37 team this afternoon in an unscheduled game. Tufts defeated the Freshmen in their first game of the season, but since them the Crimson team has been strewing its opponents left and right, and has shown remarkable improvement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1937 Lacrosse Game | 5/10/1934 | See Source »

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