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...Prince's household, obtained titles or good marriages for them, drove out the Prince's faithful old servants. She used her great strength to throw things around in her fits of rage, keeping the household in terror. She planted several of her lovers, all great, beefy, stalwart fellows, around the Prince, so that all his movements were reported to her. The aging de Condé, feeble, crippled, harried night & day, was nagged, abused, tormented, once appeared with a badly bruised eye, once screamed that Sophie was trying to cut his throat, eventually signed the will that Sophie demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worthless Wanton | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Doctors, nurses and stalwart male attendants treated him like a spoiled child. He objected to being politely addressed as Mr. Seabrook by people who were deaf to his complaints, objected to having the light burn in his room all night, objected more loudly when attendants removed the bathrobe he had used to shade the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drunkard's Progress | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

Inside the huge cabin the six stalwart young men in blue uniforms and white caps were too busy to do anything but their jobs. With the ship guided by a robot pilot and directional radio beam, Captain Edwin C. Musick and Chief Pilot Sullivan checked the course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ocean Airway | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Furth and Zirndorf, in Franconia, stalwart Nazi Storm Troopers suddenly appeared last week with paste pots, plastered both towns with screaming posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Odds | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...Vienna Lehmann found fame and a stalwart husband, Herr Otto Krause, who travels with her to the U. S., packs her bags and hopes to sell a penny can-opener of his own invention. Lehmann's ways are unpretentious. She keeps no maid, answers her own telephone, does her own mending. Five years ago she was definitely large. Now 20 Ib. thinner, she watches her diet, never orders dessert although she nibbles a bit at the apple pie which Herr Krause invariably chooses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prima Donna from Perleberg | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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