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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professors to tread upon as they go to deliver a lecture on the "Use of the Infinitive in Chaucer," or "The Place of the Hammer in the Building of the Wooden Horse." It requires all his alchemy to turn such prosey matter into palatable pap for the undergraduate. The sweet, sad music of humanity has suddenly become rather blatant jazz. And in, addition all this about the Vagabond wandering as he listeth with no man for his master, caring only for the free life and indulging only in an occasional lecture because he likes it is fiction--unadulterated fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/26/1932 | See Source »

...Coon Hollow"). He has had nothing published except a small pamphlet relating the astonishing adventures of a romantic steer in its effort to find congenial com pany. He refuses to dress up on week days, goes about his business clad like a laborer, but is described as a "mighty sweet little advertising solicitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Father to Son | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...legs are unresponsive to water and milk, but twitch noticeably when touched with cane sugar. They reacted to a solution 1/1600 as strong as the weakest sugar solution a human being can taste. Therefore Miss Anderson concluded: 1) butterflies like sugar, 2) butterflies taste with their legs, have their sweet tooth there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sweet Legs | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...MEAT 20 HEADS or LETTUCE 200 BANANAS 50 Ib. SWEET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Menu | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

First U. S. newsgatherer to obtain a formal interview from Dictator Josef Stalin was United Pressman Eugene Lyons (TIME, Dec. 1 & 8, 1930). First and only correspondent to chat with the grim Dictator's sweet-faced, cackling old mother was Hubert Renfro ("The Red Trade Menace") Knickerbocker (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Last week cheerful Ralph W. Barnes, comparatively a newcomer in Moscow and correspondent of Manhattan's Herald Tribune, was first to report Mrs. Josef Stalin, First Red Lady. He reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: First Red Lady | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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