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When the creak of the tumbril was heard again last spring in Europe, it was almost inevitable that a biography of Robespierre would not be far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea-Green Monster | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...vehicle for the waxing dramatic talents of Ginger Rogers, The Primrose Path is something of a tumbril. This is too bad for serious Cinemactress Rogers and Director Gregory La Cava, who has produced such topnotchers as Stage Door and My Man Godfrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...look at all those bastards out front." He is in a constant dither that his show will flop. After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...subtitle of William Harlan Hale's novel about Hannibal Hooker puts the tumbril before the horse: His Death and Adventures. This inversion is no accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death and Transfiguration | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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