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...also far & away the most daring. His freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his curly head is the wonder of a notoriously timid industry. However, while Carter's crusty editorializing delights thousands of listeners, it chagrins thousands more, keeps him in a perpetual controversial stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Loudspeaker | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...Clough, the Leverett head waitress, has for some years been a regular diner at Liggett's. After work, Eliot House's chef regularly stops b HayesBickford's for his oyster stew. The Adams House kitchen is often thrown out of its stride while the cook goes out for dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lumiere Jubilee | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Futurist Marinetti is also deeply concerned with Futurist Food. When he commands his cook to stew a beefsteak in honey she stews beefsteak in honey, and he feels like a Raphael testing new combinations of pigments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Future | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...that sliding down banisters and becoming embroiled in gutter fisticuffs is more fun than harp-twanging, she is the favorite household pet of everyone except Mrs. Parker. That she finally succeeds in winning over the entire cast is evidenced when at the end the whole family partakes of Mulligan stew-Ginger's favorite dish-in a garret room. "This," cries the elegant Mrs. Parker, "is the nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Jul. 15, 1935 | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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