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...shore war tickled ta find out this war leep yar. i yam awful bashful an i war shore hatin ter ax a boy to be a gittin hitched with me this yar, an being as how im ateen which means Ise gittin purty old which means Id best git me a man this year cause itle be fore more yars for i git a chance agin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

...aint particklar whut youre age or whuther your one uv them thar big handsum broots jest so yawr a blond. All i want is a home and sum hogs ter slop and chickens ter feed. i heerd that that thar school uv larnin reely did put out som purty good gents so i'll guarantee ya Ill do all the house work like cuttin the wood, haulin the water an milkin the knows. We shore would make a good happy pare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

Last week, while a cold wave gripped most of the U. S., Miami Beach and the rest of resort Florida was in full hothouse bloom, all figures indicating the biggest, giddiest season since Depression. Train and plane reservations were being booked two to four weeks in advance; 100% bet ter business over Christmas than in 1938 was reported by Seaboard Air Line Rail way; bus travel was up at least 25%; $3,000,000 more real estate had been sold in 1939 than in 1938 in Miami Beach, where sites were priced at from $800 to $1,000 a front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: On the Beach | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...plants were clogged with French and British orders. And the Finns' greatest need, artillery and small arms, was even harder to buy in a warring world. A good example of the Finns' plight and of sisu was contained in a letter from a soldier to his sis ter, which Correspondent Leland Stowe cabled to the Chicago Daily News. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Sisu | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

There are few comic concessions, but there is sly humor in Prissy 's (Butterfly McQueen) singing of Jes' a Few Mo' Days, Ter Tote de Weery Load. There is -sumptuous satire in the sets of the barbaric mansion, the realization of all Scarlett's ideals, in which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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