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...Herr Hitler that if we want to see examples of militarism and military splendor it is not necessary for us to journey to Berlin and Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Undone | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...hostess, conducted the only Moscow salon and translated novels and plays in her spare time. Fun-loving, witty, bohemian, she once engaged Novelist Theodore Dreiser in a conversation on his specialty, sexual theory, and left him blushing and speechless. Her most famous parties were in the purple splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Maxim's Exit | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...left, almost all of us, when the Herald quit the drafty but colorful old rooms overlooking Les Halles and moved into splendor and near bankruptcy near the Etoile. We are scattered all over the world, now, but I think our records in our chosen fields indicate that the Herald was staffed, at one time, anyway, by an able, imaginative and productive crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Used as the Reichstag meeting place since 1933 when the Reichstag Building was burned (Nazis said by Communist incendiaries, others said by Nazi incendiaries). The Opera House is about to be razed to make way for an "Avenue of Splendor"; the Reichstag Building is now almost rebuilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler's Inning | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Griffith of Russia really gets his teeth into a war panorama. If the Russo-German engagement in Alexander Nevsky bears no resemblance to the one actually fought at Lake Peipus on April 5, 1242, it is also like no battle ever before recorded on celluloid. For visual splendor, romantic nonsense and pure comic-strip flamboyance, the derring-do of Eisenstein's moujiks with battle-axes, boat hooks and wine pails has never been topped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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