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...shown that most of the voters are beer drinkers, and that an even greater number favour the introduction of the golden beverage into the dining halls. The answers to the other questions indicate, in general, little beside a coyly wayward tendency to annoy waitresses, and an astounding ability to vanish under the table on slight provocation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MALTING SEASON | 3/28/1933 | See Source »

...plan on the whole is a judicious move: if it receives unqualified support from the students and tutors, and if it is fortunate in the selection of men it receives from the faculty, it should prove a boon and a basis for further advance; otherwise, it will quietly vanish away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LEAVEN OF MATURITY | 3/1/1933 | See Source »

...tricks of press-agentry which Authors Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord have thought up for Cagney, even the few which are carefully outlined, can scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity. The best is his stunt of advertising a vanishing cream, which does not vanish, as a fat remover, on the assumption that purchasers will lose weight trying to rub it in. Unlike Lee Tracy's somewhat similar picture, The Half Naked Truth, Hard to Handle depends less upon journalistic exaggerations about an exciting profession than upon the personality of its principal. Cagney, talking and galloping a little faster than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 13, 1933 | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...Carpenter, two large marionettes, eat little marionette oysters as pot-bellied Tweedledum & Tweedledee recite their poem. The Mouse, the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Gryphon, the Duchess (''Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes")-all appear in scenes which occur and vanish incredibly. The Duchess' squealing baby actually turns into a live pig in Alice's arms. Actress Le Gallienne as the White Queen flies giddily about through the air. It is impossible to praise the performers singly. As the Dodo says: "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Alice to the Rescue | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...signing the Kellogg-Briand Anti-War Pact, assume that the possibility of war was about to vanish? Decidedly not, most people would agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preacher & Pact | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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