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...They were good fellows and he was glad to be in at the kill. But this ending of the year is a trying time. All courses seem to end with the fall of a dynasty or the decay of a lofty empire. May seems to bring with it the turbid ebb and flow of human tragedy along with divisionals. The Vagabond at such a time is wont to cram his briar, lounge in a chair and stare at the smoke as it floats in fragile clouds to the ceiling. A college generation is passing. That this is all foolish sentimentalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/8/1931 | See Source »

...involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone and also gives Miss Roland a chance to sing a lullaby. She talks, too, in a manner emphatically refined, and finally finds a way of escaping from troubles quite as turbid as those which, in her famous oldtime serials, she eluded in the last reel by jumping her horse over a canyon. Silliest shot: a description of Reno, enunciated by an off stage voice and synchronized into the shot of the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joy v. Monopoly | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Sacre. The curtain went up on some 40 Russian peasants, all adolescent youths and girls, dancing in a turbid wheel-like formation to woodwind music which was restive, foreboding. A haggish old woman interrupts, one who knows the secrets of Nature, of Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Rite | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

What is a poor egg? One with either watery or turbid white, a yolk that flattens out or bursts because of its thinned membrane, a dull appearance throughout the contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Storage Eggs | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...turbid ebb and flow of publicity has of late relegated the British strike to a secondary position. None-the-less, many disputes of primary importance remain to be settled, after the momentous first step of calling off the general strike unconditionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UTOPIA FORESWORN | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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