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...promptly received the warm sympathy of the leader of Mexico's Federation of Labor, Guillermo Blauncarte, and of Arthur Brisbane's Daily Mirror which printed a strong editorial on "the saddest profession." Claiming a membership of 400 at its organization, the S. D. M. threatened boycott, blacklisting and picketing of all prostitutes who did not join by June 1. Though members of all Mexican unions must abide by an eight-hour working day, Mexican newshawks discovered that President Gonzalez was back at work last week, operating her "ship" twelve hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: 5. D. M. | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...middle aged mothers are not pretty women nor clever but they are really nice women. The jaded temptress is flighty, miserably unsuccessful in her constant attempts to be amusing, gives the appearance of having dressed by standing under a tree which shed upon her various garments including the saddest sort of red wig but an fond she is really quite nice. To finish the summation, the youth are sophisticated, inconsiderate and no more comely than their forebears, but, you no doubt are ahead of us this time, an fond they are really nice brats. With such a group of characters...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/8/1935 | See Source »

...kennels she led two of the saddest beasts in the world, the furrow-browed bitch Champion Sarah of Barchester and Champion Huntsman. Over they went to the house, at Myrtle Grove, where the last burglary was committed. Whiffling mournfully, the leashed hounds were led to a broken window. Champion Sarah suddenly threw up her head and howled. Almost instantly both hounds were scrambling on the trail. Red-faced, hot and excited. Mrs. Sadlier pounded along, her champions nearly pulling her arms out. Up a hill they raced, through copses and hedges and across fields. Dawn was just breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mrs. Sadlier's Champions | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...lady or an author, Edith Wharton says: "Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death. . . . But I am born happy every morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lonesome Road | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Next day a raging blizzard whipped Dartmouth's flags flying at half-mast for the saddest day in its 164 years. Grave-faced students plodded to their classes. They talked little. Asked for a press statement, President Ernest Martin Hopkins replied. "There is nothing that can be said that can be of any comfort to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dartmouth's Saddest | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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