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When Louisiana had beaten Vanderbilt for the first time in its history by the convincing score of 29-to-0, Huey Long had expended so much energy that he was, for once, almost speechless. He puffed & panted: "We're-the greatest-team in the world. Anyone who-thinks we ain't-we plan-to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 5, 1934 | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...shouts, shrieks, coarse language. In the church, the Jarvis Street Baptists craned their necks, gasped. Past dumbfounded ushers and straight down the aisle marched a woman and a young man. They both behaved as if they were drunk. Right in front of Dr. Shield's pulpit, while he glowered speechless, the pair pushed aside indignant worshippers, began heckling the preacher. Cried he: "Get out! Get out! Leave the church! Call the police!" Ushers and male Baptists descended upon the two. "You're a hypocrite!" shrilled the woman. "I'll not be thrown out of the House of God!" Policemen shouldered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Commotion Over Curse | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

Then she went back. There were no vamps in the fire houses, there was scarcely a fireman in San Francisco who could harness a horse. In 1925 she suffered a stroke, spent her last four years speechless in Dante Sanatorium. July 20, 1929 she died, childless. Her fireman's badge was buried with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lily the Vamp | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...America, Jesuit weekly, the same theme was played last week by John La Farge, Jesuit member of the famed artistic-literary family. Father La Farge also quoted Pius XI: "The faithful should not be present at the sacred ceremonies like mere outsiders or speechless bystanders; but should be deeply affected by the beauty of the liturgy." Singing should be an act of faith. It is. said Father La Farge. "one of the noblest of all 'devotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing at Mass | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi Wedding | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

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