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Twipe, Twipe, Twipe. Miss West's present political temper worries her Laborite friends. "The individualist," she wrote recently, "is being looted by his own country as if it were an enemy." She has lately been raising the dust with her articles (in the Evening Standard) on the Fascist open-air meetings in London and the political use that the Communists are making out of them. She heard herself denounced by one little soapboxer who, unfortunately, could not pronounce the letter R. He rose to a climax with the cry: "I want to say that Miss Webecca West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...tone and temper of the current special session show that Congressmen know aid to Europe is needed," William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and staff director for the Herter Committee, declared yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elliott Says Congress Backs Aid to Europe but Wants House-Cleaning | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Last week, as the Labor Government rocked in the wake of the municipal elections (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Mirror editorialized: "Although the country . . . may still be behind Labor, it is not going to be content unless . . . the Cabinet is alive to the necessities of the time and the temper of the people. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man In the Mirror | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent and gave him a drubbing. The villagers knocked out three of my teeth and ran me out of town. All I had in my pocket was three francs, and of that I had to pay a doctor two francs 50 centimes for mending my jaw. I gave up wrestling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man with a Big Hat | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...with a hot temper and a soft heart, Mackay became a miner for love of the exercise and a mine-owner for love of the game. In Virginia City he spent his evenings at a gymnasium taking on all comers for three bruising rounds each. His regimen was rare in a town where for a time every other building on the main street was a saloon, and where the brothels were the pride of the West. With another of Virginia City's diversions, however, Mackay was thoroughly at home, and that was speculation in mining stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamblers' Millions | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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