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...blue, grey or brown. But, warns the committee, "Al Smith's turn on the New Deal . . . has made the brown derby very unpopular.'' Champagne coats, designed like the dinner jackets, come in blue, quaker grey, bisque, green and champagne, may be worn with black welt-seamed trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Champagne Coats | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...sixth round, the cut on Jeby's cheek was an ugly purple welt, his large, hooked nose was bleeding and everyone in the crowd of 12,000 except his managers knew he was a beaten man. At the beginning of the seventh, they counseled him, cruelly, to "go on in." Stumbling, Jeby tried to obey. Brouillard, still fresh after six rounds of arduous butchery, smashed his ribs and then his face with jolting lefts. Jeby stepped backwards, staggered, slipped slowly down to one knee, then fell flat on the canvas, face down. When Referee Pete Hartley's count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brouillard v. Jeby | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

decreed as the national anthem: Deutschland, Deutschland liber Alles, liber Alles in der Welt! Of this no hard & fast translation is possible, since Germans themselves have meant several different things by iiber Alles since the words were written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...little brother Loup and his cousin Jan he is just a playmate and friend. Now & then something happens to change their minds. At the sight of suffering, Christophe is occasionally overwhelmed with an agony of pity. Once, when Jan strikes at a snake, a welt mysteriously appears across Christophe's back. At such moments of agony it seems to Christophe that he is seeing things already experienced by him long ago. He longs to speak the half-remembered words spoken by him then, but the words do not come, and the Galilean light dies away from the little town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Touch of the Sun | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Passed. Corporations which last week passed their quarterly dividends included: Airway Electric Appliance Corp.. Backstay Welt Co., Continental-Diamond Fibre Co., Diamond Electrical Manufacturing Co., Kaybee Stores, Inc., Rio Tinto Co., Ltd.. Schumacher Wall Board Co.. Service Stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dividends | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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