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...hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with C. I. 0. that jurisdictional rows should be settled after reunion, said he might "go along" with John Lewis' Congress. For this there was some reason. Long jealous of their independence, many railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I Am Counting On You | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

White's Merlyn is ten times more fantastic than the Merlins of Malory, Tennyson, other Arthurian romancers. White's magician was born in the future, is living backwards in time, getting younger. This device is the excuse for numerous anachronisms: since Merlyn knows what will happen in the 20th Century, why not make some of it happen in the 13th? He does, to the delight of the Wart, to the confusion of Kay, Sir Ector and the reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anachronistic Education | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...time"; on the other "a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books and music perhaps. . . ." Handsome, untidy, cheerful, unsentimental Emma was not soft, but she was, for Darwin, more than nice. Their marriage was as blissful as the Brownings'. They both agreed that Tennyson's poetry was usually silly, detested the same people, chiefly the Carlyles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Timid Giant | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Once before this subject succeeded, in verse form, on the stage. Tennyson's Becket, with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, had a good run in the 1890s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, the modest neighborhood of Barnaby is inhabited by citizens whose salaries mostly range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. Nonetheless, the substantial red-brick house at 3122 Tennyson N. W., home of R.F.C. Counsel Claude E. Hamilton Jr., with its green shuttered windows and cement walk much like its neighbors, was one evening last week the scene of history in the making. A Diamond Taxi drove up to 3122 Tennyson, and stopped. Out of the taxi stepped Lawyer Hamilton and Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Living Room Chat | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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