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Swept the vile invader from our path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Songs for the New World | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...rather more fervent than fertile minds of his gag-writers (three of whom, he claims, are beavers) have made good pictures out of the most terrible ones, and they have done it once again with "Let's Face It." No matter how stale the plot or how vile the odour of his surroundings, Hope spring eternal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Let's Face It" | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

...MIRAKEL -E. Phillips Oppenheim - Little, Brown ($2). The Oppen-heimily-colored, romantic and adventurous tale of a rich London hotel owner who transported a bevy of war-weary cosmopolites to a fantastic Utopia where man, of course, decided to be entertainingly vile. Good Oppenheim and pleasant diversion for an empty evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: October Mysteries | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...annual pilgrimage to Ome Tochtli (Two Rabbit, God of Drunkenness) in Tepoxtlaá, staggered into Mexico City last week to find themselves bedeviled by cops, shrill women and crackdowns, tempted with low-taxed beer. The Mexican Government was full swing in its campaign to wean peons away from their vile national drink, pulque (pronounced pool-kay), educate them up to beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Debate in Mexico | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...World-Telegram composing room, circled the building for two hours, chanting: "We're out to win the war, what the hell is Pegler for?" Then an N.M.U. committee tramped to the office of Lee B. Wood, World-Telegram executive editor, handed him a statement which protested the "vile, Nazi-like statements by ... Westbrook Pegler." When Editor Wood had no comment, he was threatened by an N.M.U. spokesman: "You people better watch out. If you don't remove this guy you'll have more than picket lines around this office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Seaman Joe & the Scuttlebutt | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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