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...thinking why the girl-and-bird of you move. . . . moves. . . . and also, i'll admit-) till, at the corner of Nothing and Something, we heard a handorgan in twilight playing like hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobody's Poet | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first sight only a delicately smoky paper with a tangle of lines in the centre, suggested a cosmic twilight and the chaotic, prehistoric figures of monsters. In another kind of shorthand, a gouache called Winter Flowers showed a pattern of slim stems and frosty white blooms against grey darkness. Here all the spectator had to contribute was a simple association of darkness with winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ideas & Illuminations | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...late year about this time, when the students sit on the steps in the twilight smoking, when their lady friends sit with them in open cars, when all music is a waltz, when the little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails, and older sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It was when shouting ragamuffins go roller skating up the street, and older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press in, when a roommate borrows the car to go to Wellesley, when the debutantes read poetry, when the moon is a soft, golden cartwheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

Fortnight ago their vigilance was rewarded. Stoky rented Ravello's Villa Cimbrone for a month, and less than a week later he was joined by stately, bobbed-haired Greta Louvisa Gustafsson (Greta Garbo's real name). Soon romantic villagers were clacking of arm-in-arm walks in twilight, unabashed embraces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Idyl | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...games, his 90 shutouts, 16 in one season (an all-time record), his 28 victories in his first year of big-league baseball (1911). But last week "Old Pete" was managing a hotel ball team called the Springfield Empires-a station he had reached via the characteristic twilight trail from major-league to minor-league to semi-pro baseball, including an interval of barnstorming with the bearded House of David troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Immortals | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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