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...what loomed high even above Roosevelt's triumph was the utter and complete confusion of the forces of fanaticism, the inglorious rout of the rabble-rousers. In the North, in the South and far beyond the Mississippi, demagogue after demagogue fell before the crushing blast of inspired votes. James M. Curley, friend and participating member of the society of jail-birds, whose notorious record in local politics will go down in the annals of the state, recieved his just due; an over-whelming rebuff--the mandate of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POST MORTEM | 11/5/1936 | See Source »

...were not worth bothering with. When, in the fourth chukker, chunky little Hughes poked the ball between the posts three times, England was only a goal behind. When Guinness scored again for England in the sixth, the score was tied at 7-all, and what had started as a rout was momentarily the tightest U. S. v. England polo since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hurlingham | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...scandlous durings going on here." She liked the "Smart and Strudy Swiss." In Belgrade a girl passed her carrying a succulent dish. Said Juanita: "where ever you goth I'll flower it smelled so good I flowered Her 2 blocks." When she writes of herself as leaving "in rout'' she does not mean that her unshakable equanimity has been disturbed. ''The French are called the Sweetheart Nation because they kiss and hugh right on the buisy streets. Yet they are perfectly harmless in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gelouries! | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...magnificent feat of cinematography when he articulates the progress of this remarkable revolutionary battle piece. Taking advantage of the dank Baltic gloom around the Kronstadt Naval Base to begin his film in low key, he dramatically heightens it until the climax is reached with the great attack and rout of the White Army on the bleached, glaring tundras north of Petrograd. At the same time, We Are From Kronstadt is periodi cally botched by overexposures, uncommunicative acting sequences, sagging pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Italians have all but completed their Ethiopian conquest. Only the final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITE MAN'S BURDEN | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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