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...scattered through the last twelve years of Robert Burns' life, John Drinkwater has tried to give not so much an historical as a spiritual biography in play form. Yet the story is not maltreated. The first scene shows him as a young plowman already cheerfully confronting woman and the unco godly in the persons of Nell and Holy Willie? laughing and singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...campaign deficits be published and monthly lists of those who contributed to make up such deficits be given after each election. As penalty for failure in these duties he attached a $5,000 fine, one year in prison, or both. This proposition was such that none of the unco-good Senators could oppose it. Senator Robinson, Democratic Floor Leader, assisted in framing it. Senator Edge, sponsor of the bill, thought the publicity clause had no place in a postal salary measure. So he refrained from voting on the amendment. The vote showed 55 Senators in favor of the Borah amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two in One | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

RAIN?The United States Marines collaborate with Jeanne Eagels (as a lady who isn't no real lady) to ruin the unco guid-ness of a peevishly pious missionary while tropical rain pours down incessantly on the just and the unjust and shivers chase each other on the audience's spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jun. 25, 1923 | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

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