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Cecilia, attractive and intelligent young widow, was not exactly heartless but she had little affection to spare. The person she liked most was Emmeline, near-sighted but charming girl with whom she shared a London house when she was not traveling. Both Emmeline and Cecilia were attractive to men and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: English Ophelia | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

She Done Him Wrong is the same tale of an 1898 Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Cinema | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Cambridge, always a community infested with beggars, deserving or otherwise, has in this particular taken a decided turn for the worse during the depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPARE ME A DIME | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

Singing medieval church music was too much for the irrepressible spirit of these jolly clerics. The austerity and the monotony of plainsong they found a bore. They began by introducing words of their own into the mass the tenor of the new text was more entertaining, if not always reverent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/17/1932 | See Source »

The Powers that be may Branch out today to give the Injun team a victory, but I Hardy think so. Yesterday afternoon was Friday for the Big Green, and maybe that wily Fishman wasn't busy delivering the goods. Dartmouth has Morton this year than last, and they may be...

Author: By Dr. HU Flung huey, | Title: DR. HUEY GIVES GREEN GOOD GROUNDS TO GIVE UP GHOST | 10/22/1932 | See Source »

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