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Through his uncouth boorishness shines the "tendresse" that made, and permeates, the whole picture. The priest who retrieves the sinful wife on piggyback, and the wine, women and horse-loving marquis fill the gaps in whatever there is of social parody. Somehow "The Baker's Wife" leaves you with the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/5/1940 | See Source »

When Edward Hull Crump was mayor of Memphis 30 years ago, he clinched his grip on Memphis' heartstrings by refusing to enforce State Prohibition. During World War I, when the Army demanded abolition of the red-light district, the trulls quietly packed up and moved their business to shuttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Memphis Blues | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

> A Glasgow applicant: "The Bible and Tolstoy led me to the conclusion that war is sinful and futile."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conchies | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Having read so much ridiculing Governor Dickinson of Michigan for his utterances, I am prompted to express my feelings. First, permit me to state that I am not a crusader or reformer. I am merely a medical practitioner in a college town of 4,500. It is of no special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Repercussions came immediately, spread throughout the U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose dark red eyebrows are ranked third in Washington below Lewis' and Garner's, had a reporter reread Lewis' statement to him, chuckled heartily, said aloud: "That's too eloquent for comment," then sotto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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