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...violence spreads, Perse's lovely wife leaves him. His affair with the sensual daughter of his good friend, Mr. Christian, ends bitterly. He defends a grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent man. The Association fails, and so does Perse: "The reason for things is gone. . . . Like flood water going down and leaving trash and stuff up in a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tobacco War | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...clumsy, hideous, black, panting, grinning, sly, besotted, sensual, shameless...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

...which he painted on 1,000 square feet of wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Joke | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...active as a malted-milk mixer, Welles is for all that very heavyset, his adolescent moon face slowly beginning to resemble a Roman Emperor's. Told he looks Roman, he asks interestedly: "Do you mean sensual?" His own description of himself: "I look like the dog-faced boy." Troubled by his asthma, untroubled by his flat feet, Welles gets a little exercise walking and fencing, most by directing and rehearsing. He starts off a Falstaffian meal with a dozen oysters, tops it off with a big black 75?cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Medecin Malgre Lui," a movie taken directly from Moliere's play by the same name, imitates the Comedic Francaise in the acting and directing. The cast is an extremely good one, headed by M. Rogoni, as Sganarelle, the jovial, sensual wood-chopper who suddenly becomes a doctor in spite of himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

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