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...bought her ticket to the show, as most of us did; she had a swell and exciting and deeply moving time while the show lasted. Should she now demand her money back? Should any of us demand our money back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Greatest Show | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...Little Stet's square, good-looking face was already turning grey. At college he never touched a drop to drink, never smoked, never used bad language. He became head of the college Y.M.C.A.. and also King of the Imps (noted for their heavy drinking), was rated a "swell guy" and finally was elected president of the Academic department. His inherited drive was already in full swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Statistics | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...actor-musician has had much contact with the local debutantes lately, as he has been presented over the radio every afternoon since his arrival, giving interviews to the Boston society girls. "They even turned out at the station to meet me," said he, "they're a swell bunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Buddy Rogers Finds Boston Debutantes Satisfactory Yet Not Athletic---Prefer Piano | 12/9/1933 | See Source »

...Stinger." "It's the best drink in the world when you want to go out on a real binge. I don't think things are much different now, than before repeal, except that the liquor is better and stronger. Why, the Copley bar was just like a swell place I know of in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burlesque Queen Likes Harvard Men; Football Stars Too Handsome---Make Her Very Nervous | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

...suds, explained the Belgian scientist, are in disequilibrium, some whipped by a cosmic repulsive force (expressed by the constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in a state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soapsuds & Sunspots | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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