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...other pictures of their ilk, will begin to question the gentleman's veracity. One might even believe that "Ace of Aces" was produced when air-warfare extravaganzas--were in vogue, and that Radio Pictures hesitated to inflict it on audiences until more successful brethren had been forgotten. Engines roar, sputter, machine guns bark, and planes go down in flames, but the only redeeming feature is Richard Dix. Even worshippers of the red corpuscles however, might be induced to pity, the protruding jaw and the twisted snarl, which, has already been used to such advantage, when its ineffectiveness in one asinine...

Author: By O. F. I., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

...greatest im portance to business recovery that the Administration clearly and unequivocally announce that it will not adopt an automatic commodity dollar or a managed commodity dollar or similar currency experi- ments. . . ."* An amendment to substitute an endorsement of the President's policy was voted down with a roar of Nays. When Earl Harding, representing the inflationist Committee for the Nation, asserted that the resolution would antagonize "perhaps 75% of the population of the nation" the chambermen laughed. Mr. Loree, president of Delaware & Hudson R. R., old wise man of the sea of practical economics, took a $100 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dollar Squeezing | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...April or May, Japan will have consolidated her position in Manchuria, the Siberian winter will be over and the roads open; it will be Japan's great chance to get a "place in the sun," and the coming of Spring in Siberia will probably be heralded by the roar of the guns along the Amur River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SOVIET, WITHDRAW" | 11/8/1933 | See Source »

...hellish storms of dictatorship may roar and rage outside our cloistered Yard, but Harvard shall have its democracy again. An awesome member of the Faculty, who should have known better, was heard to rejoice at the ending of "tyranny, damned tyranny," with the coming of the Conant regime. Were only all dictators as benevolent and enlightened as Adolf Lorenzo Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/7/1933 | See Source »

...island lies, where loud the billows roar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/29/1933 | See Source »

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