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...enthusiastic Romans jammed the sidewalks of every street through which the royal pair could possibly pass, whiled away the long hours playing lottery games. Enterprising peddlers did a rushing business selling envelopes containing numbers shrewdly dubbed the "favorites" of the Pope, the King, the Queen. Many a Roman policeman unbent to buy tickets himself and play with the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Kneeling Majesty | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...respects. Meanwhile a troop of "Revolutionary Entertainers" had skipped cavorting onto the stage. Only one number seemed to please Stalin. He is an Asiatic from the Soviet Republic of Georgia, adjoining Armenia. When a singer named Zagorskaya sang a Georgian love song, The Man of Steel applauded vigorously, unbent, began to chat animatedly with Peasant-President Kalinin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Love Song | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Unofficially, however, the Count unbent as follows: "I am never either optimistic or pessimistic where business deals are concerned. I am a business man going to America to talk business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Volpi's Commission | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...long after receipt of the news in the U. S., reporters crossed the threshold of Mr. Gilbert's office in lower Manhattan, but he was "too busy to comment." Later, however, he unbent, issued a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPARATIONS: Genius Rewarded | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...over. There is much brave fighting to be done before the German will be driven over the Rhine. The Wotan line is yet unbent by the hammer of Thor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLOOD AND IRON | 5/5/1917 | See Source »

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