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Our next to godly professor thereupon stripped under the Sinaitic sun, and began to pour water over himself, while crowds of little native children, gathering to get a ringside view of this naked Brobdingnagian, began to point at him and repeat something in Arabic over and over again. No mean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/16/1935 | See Source »

But there's this to be remembered; nations will have arms in this scrabbled epoch, L. of N. or no. The arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Bearded Goats | 3/12/1935 | See Source »

No thing of beauty according to modern standards, this car has been made to join the great unwashed army of Model "T" and "A Fords that have dominated the rural field so long. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

In other aspects of the lecture, too, Dr. Drury showed a tendency to lose contact with educational reality. He lauded the spending of money on elaborate school buildings, for example, without mention of the disproportion between these expenditures and the salaries of teachers. Similarly, political control of the public schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INGLIS LECTURE | 1/11/1935 | See Source »

Tobacco Road (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell's novel; Anthony Brown, producer). Country squalor, never as bad as city squalor, lies over Robert Redington Sharpe's single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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