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...everybody knew the reason. Messenger wanted to kill Crimp, but instead he moved out of her cabin and took Grammy with him. Soon afterwards he went away on the "underground," trying to "make free." But it was the "blind underground"; a few days later he was found in a swamp with his head bashed in. Grammy grew up with a horror of "makin' free." And he liked the plantation life. He was smart with mules and horses, like his daddy, and quickly rose to be the most responsible slave on the place. After the usual amount of pleasuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Makin' Free | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...aloft again. The field manager hopped into a plane, tried to lead the Mollisons to earth by making a landing into the wind in the floodlights. It was no use. The Seafarer, after circling wretchedly six times, stuck to its curious course, inevitably overshot the field, crashed in a swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Downwind | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...radioscope, escape with his fiancée (Sari Maritza). Through all this rigmarole, W. C. Fields wanders with a frozen face, an unlighted cigar, an armful of bottles. He goes on a rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie Allen (who has a small role as nurse to the house doctor), drives his sedan down the fire escape, finally meanders off in his autogiro with Miss Joyce, whom he calls his little buttercup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...excuse to go to Santa Rosa," was surprised when he won the appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy camp. After Manila he spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Standley for Pratt | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...speaking of a Louisiana swamp, one might as well say "don't talk about mosquitoes, think of all the beautiful birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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