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...Alone, enmity was bared; also love. Before they slept, they must fight; after they had fought, they would embrace. From that embrace another life might be born. But first they must fight, as the dog fox fights with the vixen, in the heart of darkness, in the fields of night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mirror for England | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Married. Bette Davis, 32, popeyed film vixen; and Arthur Farnsworth, 34, a childhood friend in Lowell, Mass.; unexpectedly, secretly and both for the second time; in Rimrock, Ariz. They renewed friendship in 1939 when Cinemactress Davis vacationed in Sugar Hill, N. H., where Farnsworth was assistant manager of a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...couple of days Martha Blair handed free stories to the Post. Then, having shown Cissie Patterson who could get the news, she subsided. To her friends she said: "Now that I've got all the vixen out of me, I'm through." Mrs. Patterson's friends said that Cissie was amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Washington | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever. In 1936, still immune, he nearly caused a diplomatic breach between England and France by contemning France's role in the London Locarno Conference. Excerpt: "The position of France is as usual that of a bad-tempered vixen of a woman who up to a point has discovered that merely by making herself unpleasant she can get poor male things to do anything she wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kiwi | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Vamp & Vixen. Ten years ago Bette Davis went to lofty Eva Le Gallienne, looking for a place in her Manhattan Civic Repertory company. Actress Le Gallienne dismissed her saying, "I can see your attitude toward the theatre is not sincere. . . . You are a frivolous little girl." Three years later, after a year with Universal Pictures, she was dismissed again, for lack of sex appeal. "I can't imagine any guy giving her a tumble," pronounced Carl ("Junior") Laemmle, 23-year-old Hollywood producer-genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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