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...make things as difficult as possible for Captain Eden to sew up anything against Germany with Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff, an $80,000,000 private credit was abruptly extended by Germany to Russia this week three days before the Great Orator hurled his tirade against Bolshevism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Berlin Mission | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...other picture, "Servants Entrance" plays in Sweden, where a girl with a conscience decides to abandon her wardrobe and learn how to cook, sew, and other things. She comes back home with a chauffeur on her mind and it does not surprise the audience that the chauffeur is also a budding engineer and his father-in-law the largest motor manufacturer in Sweden. Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres take one and a half fairly amusing hours to make the "big decision...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

Princeton still rates as the collegiate style center, with Harvard low water mark. "They're crazy up there," a department store man grumbled. "They even cut holes in their elbows and sew on leather patches." Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Depression | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Chastleton Hotel, he marched into Neighbor Cohen's room and punched him on the jaw. "I asked him like a gentleman over the phone to stop the racket." explained the Minnesota Congressman. "Then I went up and stopped it myself. But I got a doctor to sew him up." Two months before that Francis Shoemaker had been involved in a newsworthy fracas in Minneapolis. While under the influence of an opiate administered for a tooth extraction, he was taken to the wrong hospital. Recovering consciousness, he became so violent that the superintendent had him removed to his hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 381--3 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

When sailors sew they need a stitch

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tiny Tower | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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