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...draft animals of themselves. Even the women dragged cannon behind them. In charges the hairy evzones came screaming, their white skirts flapping like osprey wings. There was no thought -as there often was among the Italians -for personal safety. One young Greek aviator, out of ammunition, flew his plane smack into an Italian plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Murk | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Last week Barney Josephson opened an uptown branch of Café Society, smack in the heart of the swank East Side, next door to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. On the nightclub's two-story-high walls. Artist Anton Refregier painted soft-toned satirical murals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Uptown Boogie-Woogie | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Taking careful aim and with obvious satisfaction, Beverly Vincent planted a good hard right, smack! It staggered, and silenced, Martin Sweeney. Though Congressmen not infrequently threaten one another and have been known to throw bound copies of the Record* when vexed, ancient Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnot said it was the best blow he had heard in his 50 years in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Bitter End | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...already won, Benito Mussolini used to talk of a daredevil air squadron called "I Disperati"-the desperate ones. These brave men, when the proper time came, would climb into the air in planes packed with TNT and dive to their death and to the glory of the fatherland smack into the middle of enemy ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Daffy Dive Bombers | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Under John's wing was his five-year-old sister Julie. "I had to smack her-not hard, mind you-two or three times," he confided. "She was forever losing her life belts after drill. A bit of a mess she is-and bossy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lights of the New World | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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