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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...based on Negro metaphysical practices in Haiti, which Author William B. Seabrook. credulous savage-lover, exploited in The Magic Island. Seabrook was enthusiastically noncommittal about the actual existence of ''zombies'' (animated dead men). The picture fervently believes in them. Dazed Madge Bellamy has come to Haiti to marry slack-jawed John Harron. Robert Frazer. her secret admirer, invites the two young people to his house to be married. To prevent the marriage he goes to a zombie tycoon. Bela Lugosi. who looks like a comic imbecile, can make his jawbones rigid and show-the whites of his eyes. These abilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...miracle to come about to absorb the unemployed and unemployment has risen to a total in excess of 10.000.000. What has Congress done? We have brought about no recovery in business by any action so far and it is clear that private industry is unable to take up the slack. Thus far we have been smug, complacent, waiting for someone else. But the situation can't be met that way. . . . The primary purpose behind this bill is to help States and municipalities which are being forced to abandon projects because they cannot sell securities." The relief legislation had hardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Garner v. Wagner v. Hoover | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...chapter on dry fly fishing. Author Bergman tells how to make slack line casts, how to study a stream: "Sometimes the water may look flat and uninteresting but close examination will reveal many small holes scattered here and there usually in each of these holes will be found trout. . . . No matter how shallow the water may be, it is always wise to fish where there are rocks of any size. . . Always the short cast is preferable to a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: How to Fish | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...this week's final examinations. TOMORROW Anthropology 16Sever 17 Botany 6a Mallinckrodt MB23 Chemistry 4 Mallinckrodt MB23 Chemistry 19 Mallinckrodt MB23 Class. Philology 28 Sever 29 Economics 3 New Lect. Hall Economics 11 Sever 36 English 16 Sever 36 English 50b Mr. Adler, Mr. Simpson Emerson D Mr. Slack, Mr. Woodward Emerson 211 Fine Arts 2a Fogg Museum Fine Arts 2b Fogg Museum Fine Arts 4b Fogg Small Rm. French 5 Sever 6 French 27 Sever 7 Geology 18 New Lect. Hall German C Dr. Howe, Sec. 1 Harvard 6 Dr. Zipf, Sec. 2 Harvard 6 Mr. Stamm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schedule of Final Examinations | 6/1/1932 | See Source »

...score--Princeton 6, Harvard 0. Try--Gordon. Penalty goal--Hinman. Referee--James D. Calderwood. Time of halves--30 min. PRINCETON. HARVARD Stout, f.b. f.b., Wheeler Hinman, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Cadman E. Dolaney, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Slack Lee, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Draper Kemmerer, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Babbitt W. Delaney, s.o.h. s.o.h., Lowe Gordon, s.h. s.h., Sweeney Crook, f. f., Gorman Brooks, f. f., Dockery Leonard, f. f., Longley Kimball, f. f., Turner Henderson, f. f., Roberts Vandeusen, f. f., Oppenheimer Wise, f. f., Thorburn McAllen, f. f., Houston

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINOR AND WEEK-END SPORTS | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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