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Rachael grew pale, wept. Her mother, her face hidden by a shawl, screamed hoarsely and fled the courtroom. Nathan Goldberg sobbed: "She is dead for me. I have nothing to do with her no more. Her three dresses hang in the closet. Tomorrow I burn them and we sit shivah. She is dead from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Corpse Woman | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Mahatma Gandhi announced that when he attends the Federal Structures Committee meeting in London next September he will live in an East End poorhouse called Kingsley Hall and will appear before the King barefoot and clad in loincloth and shawl, weather permitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 22, 1931 | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Troy were successful but they found no Homeric treasure. The day before digging was to stop the two Schliemanns, standing together, saw the glint of gold. With great presence of mind they dismissed the workmen, finished the digging themselves, smuggled the treasure away in Sophia's red shawl. Technically all such finds belonged to the Turkish Government, but Schliemann got safely away with it, finally gave it to the Berlin Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold-Digger* | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...from the effects. But not without telling him a few things that leave his life a desert. The Author- Andre Paul William Gide, reputed the most powerful figure in contemporary French literature, looks like a lean and sinister clown, loves mystery, theatrics. Bald, he often wears a skullcap, a shawl over his shoulders. His early books were such immediate failures he thought seriously of abandoning writing. At 40 (he is now 61) he learned English and translated Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality. His consuming curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Artistry* | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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