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...much as can be done with a role as lifeless as King Tut. Greer Garson, with her red hair in a big knot, looks like seven pounds of potatoes in a five pound bag--and I do mean bag. The picture as a whole--well, we won't be unkind--we'll just say it stinks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

They were there, as their expense accounts showed, but otherwise it was an unkind and entirely unwarranted dig. Perhaps the White House gang would forget it in time, but they were powerfully disillusioned. Last week most of them felt that it was the end of a beautiful friendship. If so, it betokened more than that: the beginning of a new era in White House press relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of a White House Friendship | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

This little book includes practically every important literary allusion that has ever been made to human freedom. These quotations, says Co-Editor Josiah Wedgwood (who last week was shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Variety of Freedoms | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Some very unkind things were said about her. There she sat, sleek and new, the biggest plane in the world-on the ground. For ten weeks she sat there, on Clover Field at Santa Monica, Calif. In one of her first taxiing tests, the Douglas B-19 had chewed up her hydraulic braking system. Earlier she had broken through the macadam pavement. Some, who should have known Douglas Aircraft and the Air Corps better, said she'd never get into the air, she was too heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: A Laboratory Flies | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Unkind Senators chortled last week over the first prattfall of their new presiding officer, conscientious Henry Agard Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ducks for Beef | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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