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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northerner can ever quite fathom, and whose charm no New England town can ever quite equal--for a Southerner. Charlottesville is Virginia, and Virginia is Charlottesville. There is no escaping this cycle. Further south, in the Carolinas, the college boys are required to drink a jug of "so'th'n cawn" to prove they are gentlemen and scholars. Ther is no necessity for such measures at the University of Virginia. It is considered an insult even to intimate that a Virginian could not master such a meagre portion of the brew on which he has been raised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...well back-wards as it did forwards. She finally decided that it was she whom they were looking for and hobbled in to the back seat. She interrupted the campaign fight talk by saying. "I know, I know! I'm thpothed to wote for Thalberg, I mean Thaltenberg. He'th a good man. I always wote for the Wepublicanth. They alwayth good men." She was given an already marked ballot for safety, however, to guide her. In the polls she took the unmarked ballot dropped the marked one in the box without looking at it, and started out. After...

Author: By John T. Mccutcheon jr., | Title: Disguised Students Canvassing for Republican Votes Find Ignorance of "Dat Guy Harvard," Support of Thalberg | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

...hume it Mae Concearn: This is to sertify that Annie Bell Bowden is living with 8 th husben. Mother and father's home at Moorehead, N. C. Mother name Mary Elizer, Father Willie Henry Nobles and she was the mother of twenty one (21) children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 8 Husben | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Three different spot landing events will test th pilots' skill in handling his plane; in the 360 degree spot landing the pilot will have to make a complete circle from a low altitude and try to make his plane land as near to a line as possible. The 280 degree event will be from a lower altitude and be only a semicircle. Then comes the bullseye landing, where the pilot has to guide his plane to a landing on a spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN SCHOOLS TO VIE IN AIR MEET AT HAMPTON FIELD | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

Edouard Bourdet is director of the Théâtre Français, better known as the Comédie Francaise, which is the haughtiest and most famous theatre in the world. Recently the Comédie Franchise was delighted to honor French Playwright Henry Bernstein's Judith. But not, in Bernstein's opinion, to rehearse it properly. Thereupon Bernstein naturally insulted Bourdet. Bourdet naturally challenged Bernstein to a duel. It was Bourdet's first, Bernstein's ninth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Swords at Lunchtime | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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