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...Nominee Landon stepped into a circle of microphones and in high-pitched, quavering tones, began a stumbling, halting, repetitious little speech. "Your good wishes and goodwill touch Mrs. Landon and myself very deeply. . . ." Once his voice broke completely. Once he raised a finger to brush away tears behind his rimless spectacles. Finally he got through: "We shall always cherish the memory of this happy evening together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Happy Evening | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...clock press conference. Seven newshawks were waiting for him. "Well, well, look who's here," twanged the Governor, a wide smile crinkling his plain, friendly face. "Top o' the mornin' to you all." Slouched back in his chair, brown eyes half-closed behind his octagonal rimless spectacles, the Governor talked about the weather, a fishing trip he planned to take, the lack of news. "You know, boys," drawled he, "I didn't sleep well last night, worryin' about you-all and how there's not much news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...afternoon of March 27 a neat little Chinese student in blue serge suit, brown tie and rimless octagonal spectacles was seen sprinting for dear life across the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College at Tahlequah. Daniel Shaw (born Hing Sieu) had traveled all the way from Hongkong in 1931 to study in the U. S., had wandered through colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.. San Francisco, Lynn, Mass., Cicero, Ill. and Lexington, Ky., trying to make up his mind whether to be a missionary or a diplomat. Finally he ended up in Tahlequah to study American Indian lore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Indian Lore | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...square chin is softened by the fact that it tops a neck like that of a warbling thrush or bullfrog. But the mustache is close-clipped, businesslike, and the hard, unflickering hazel eyes keep their level aim behind efficient, rimless glasses. Appropriately L'Americain is of mixed blood, with a faint ancestral dash of German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tardieu Cabinet | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Thus Mr. Cutten, "smallish," lean, trim, stiff-jawed, with sparse, curly silver hair and half-moon rimless glasses, the lenses cut square at the bottom, looks out under the glasses, frequently says, "Don't you .know?" in a way that more slangy persons say "Get me?" He smokes157 cigarets, stands before his office in his shirtsleeves, nods to passing stenographers, messenger boys, friends. His office is a "tiny hideout," does not carry his name on its door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Shy Bull | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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