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...mildly entertaining potful of scraps, Witchcraft would be more impressive had Seabrook, like a conscientious warlock, given it double toil and trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mumble-Jumble | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Europe, which is awaiting a German peace, may know this peace must be one without Jews. . . " Germany's and Italy's victory will secure space far away from European labor and culture where the scum of humanity may try to lead a life of its own toil or die a death it earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace Without Jews | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...this chronicle of adversity: Faith in the Saints supports Mama Garcia in preserving her Pedro's self-respect, her large brood's health and virtue. Pedro lacks Faith, succumbs to relief, gin, a jalopy. So Concha leaves him, tries alone to support her niños by toil, Faith and scheming. Primitive instinct at last leads her back to Pedro for reconciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...could mere toil align thy choiring strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautiful Bridge | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

This week a telling document was added to the tragic literature of hindsight. In a dissection of Allied war economics ("Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat"), FORTUNE for July tots up the assets and liabilities of Britain and France and their empires, points up their strength and weakness for totalitarian war. Written before the final collapse of France, it helps explain why that collapse occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Why the Allies are Losing | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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