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...hrer, on the other hand, ordered his aviators to try out a few of their latest tricks over Loyalist cities, but spared Germans the tedious life of the trenches. His fine-looking, neatly dressed, clean-shaven, well-behaved warriors were mostly staff officers, expert airplane technicians, artilIerymen and anti-aircraft gunners who stayed back of the lines and kept pretty much to themselves. There were probably never more than 10,000 of them in Spain at one time, but for two years they performed a service which neither Spaniards nor Italians were educated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Farewell | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...greater fondness for entertaining. Never has he been host to as many guests as during this year. Youngest of the three big European dictators (Mussolini is 55, Stalin about 60), he works the least of any of them. He rarely bothers with details, has no capacity for long, tedious hours at his desk, is able to delegate power to trusted subordinates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...LOEWS STATE AND ORPHEUM--One must concede Mickey Rooney a moral triumph for toning down his elaborate facial contortions, but his tolerably effective portrayal of "Huckleberry Finn" does not save the film as a whole from being a tedious, uninspired production. What little zest remains of the hilarious Mark Twain story is submerged under the Negro Jim's long harangues flash of humor arouse the spectator's interest, as, for example, when the King and Huckleberry give a delicious parody on Romeo and Juliet. But such antics are all too infrequent, and even the melodramatic steamboat-race climax fails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Nancy Drew--Reporter," the second feature on the program, tells a tedious tale of two ruddy-checked, adventure-seeking adolescents hot on the trail of two vicious murderers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...pack of lightweight cards will while away any tedious hours of the journey. . . . Handkerchiefs . . . will obviously be required although every effort will be made to avoid colds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Payload to the Moon | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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