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...what a stench! Black maggots, tasteless, fleshy matter. Food. Green food. Those hills he had read of, those places where the soil was rich, and good, clean, food grew. Stew! Brew, grew, stew, whew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...closing let me say that no well informed bum could fail to read TIME. It ranks along with a good Mulligan stew and you know how good that is-or do you? ROBERT BRUCE SHORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...real Irish stew of a book, Army Without Banners has a smoky flavor, is spudded with hunks of lyrical description, plenty of jagged bones and gristle of realism, and enough meat to go round. Author O Malley has not piled on his horrors as he might: more than once he obviously cuts a grim tale short. But not always. In the worst days of the Trouble, when the British were shooting any Irishman they caught with arms on him. O Malley's men captured three English officers. They were armed. Under standing orders from headquarters, O Malley had them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Trouble | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...perhaps most important, the provision that all American claims to any materials whatsoever, intended for a belligerent country, must be relinquished before they leave an American port. The neutrality bill fits the pressing demand for a strictly defined policy, permitting the President to stick his finger in the stew only to proclaim a "state of war" and possibly add to the embargo list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEUTRALITY WITH A VENGEANCE | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

...three-quarter-mile toboggan slide led down into South St. Paul's Main Street where "Hook 'Em Cows" prepared to serve 15,000 quarts of stew cooked in a huge kettle outdoors. From the Ice Palace a four-block slide sluiced down Cedar Street. Parks and public rinks were crowded and daily parades of gaudy costumed carnivalists marched and countermarched to watch hockey games, dogsled races, ski jumping, snowshoeing. Inside the State Fair Hippodrome, Ralph Hachenbach of Chicago witj| his long-bladed racing skates sliced almost four seconds off the U. S. two-mile indoor record (time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hook 'Em Cow | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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