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...Backwoods!" I-I-»? &$#%" -%$#"'&- er, I'm speechless. Sich igrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...megalomania. Last week, when Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Minneapolis, a civic group suggested that Bierman and the President be photographed together. Bierman refused on the grounds that foot ball and politics do not mix. He said he would not object if the President came to see him. Almost speechless in the presence of reporters, luncheon clubs and radio interviewers, he often sits up till 3 a. m. working out plays. When Bierman is creating, his wife and two sons creep quietly about the house. At practice, Bierman stands almost still, speaks in a low voice, nervously twirls a whistle attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Minnesota Miracle | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...dictatorship died last fortnight with King Fuad I (TIME, May 11). Last week Egyptian politicians worked fast to take over the Government. As 16-year-old King Farouk I arrived from England to move into his new job, Egypt's overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party swept snap elections, as speechless as they were brief, for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Reason for haste was that King Farouk is two years short of his dynastic majority. The Constitution of 1923 provided that the envelope containing King Fuad's nominations for the Council of Regents had to be opened before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Wafd Up | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...widows, staying with their grown daughters in Rome, indulge in reminiscent chat. The brilliant, condescending one is left speechless at the news that the quiet one's envied daughter is also her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cultivated Garden | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...dynamic maxim attributed to Stephen Girard reads: "My deeds must be my life; when I am dead my actions must speak for me." We hope Christian manhood leaving Girard College is eloquent action; a mere educational plant done up in Chester County marble is rather static-entirely speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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