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...since) in a happy bond of mutual agreement. On the broad walls of well-to-do Victorian homes hung immense canvases which told stories that were easily understood and appreciated-the capture of a dishonest bank clerk at a crowded railroad station, Derby Day, a bearded doctor's vigil at the bedside of a sick child, a sailor's sweetheart gazing across the ocean. Most of these painted short stories had a helpful moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Art's Sake | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...again, on-again Gunder ("The Wunder") Hägg finally arrived in the U.S. last week. He did not swim over, as Manhattan newsmen had been suggesting he must be doing, during their month-long vigil at the docks; the speedy Swede came on a slow freighter, and he had sore feet from training-trots he made on the boat's steel decks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brand-New Hagg | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...VIGIL OF A NATION-Lin Yutang- John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Rivers | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Street Scene. In Kansas City, a labor picket, tiring of his eight months' fruitless vigil, knocked off for some deep-sea fishing off California, was treated to a farewell party by friends he had acquired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Blot was a taunting the Jester, a new Jester without the tradition worship of the old masters. Light dawned in Ibis intellect: unwitting Lampy had bestowed the Eli sky-blue tint to creaking portals that shrieked their protest in hues of yellow. The bird groaned and returned to frustrated vigil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibis Queries Erring Lampy in Tragedy of Shrieking Door | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

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