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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were addressed by Air Raid Precautions Chief Sir John Anderson. Sir Walford Davies, Master of the King's Musick, led a singsong, urged the audience to sing loud because the rally was being broadcast "and probably Hitler will pick it up." When it came to singing the Lambeth Walk, he insisted on more umph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Defiance, Deference, Defense | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...They want [an editor] who cannot read or write, make a speech, a broadcast, or walk. What they want is a mummy, a dummy and a 'flummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...creditable performance which should boost her stock in undergraduate eyes. Although this department can see no relevance whatever in the title, "Just Around the Corner" gives audiences at the University Theatre eighty minutes of diverting plot and catchy songs, of which the catchiest is "I Like to Walk in the Rain." Amanda Duff enables Charles Farrell to make a dignified come-back, with the nimble feet of Bill Robinson and the Bert Lahr baritone helping things out. "Arrest Bulldog Drummond" is a satisfactory companion piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

...threatened invaston of a Yardling's traditional right to walk the streets of Cambridge at all hours of the night came to naught yesterday when reports in the Boston press that the new curfew law would apply to all children 16 or under were dented by city officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURFEW SHALL NOT RING IN CAMBRIDGE FOR YARDLINGS | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

...Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter how many haughty ladies might refuse to curtsy to his wife, the Duke could rest assured that he was daily in the loving thoughts of many a strange individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fabricated | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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