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Two good wives grace those turbulent and dangerous times. One was Mariamne, sweet-tempered Jewish wife of Herod, who loved her desperately even though he let her be executed as a result of Salome's cold-blooded intrigues. The other was Amytis, wife of handsome, witty, tolerant Cyrus.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Man's Image | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

For production in quantity, National Chip Steak Co. has improved on Butcher Dubil's original process. "Chips" are made from rounds and loins, which are first cleared by butchers of bones, sinews and fat, then packed into loaves in metal containers which are quick-frozen, at 15° below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kiwi | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

In 1919 when Edda was barely nine, her father formed his first Fascia di Combattimento, and by the time of the famed March on Rome in 1922 (when Benito took a sleeper to Rome, however) she had grown into an impetuous, violent tempered, but intelligent and alert girl of twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lady of the Axis | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

"On the contrary, three streams of civilized behavior feed American life. There is the chivalry of which the South is proud, the finely tempered, grave courtesy of old New England and the incomparable warmheartedness of the West."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O.K., England | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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