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...speeches began, a wonderful, if temporary, surge of good feeling united the thousands in the hall. Bill Boyle almost wept as he stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday at Home | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Barsov missed his wife and child: "In five hours of sleep had a lot of delirium, saw my son (he was very glad to see me back) in my dreams, wept a lot ... I don't know what to do." He drank heavily, worried about "pulsations" in his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Flight from Freedom | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Madame St. Laurent wept at the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pere de Famille | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Clouds of Faith. In 1850, all England wept over In Memoriam, Emily Sellwood consented, after twelve years, to marry him, and Queen Victoria made him Laureate. Thereafter until his death in 1892, Alfred Tennyson gave the profession of poetry a public dignity that it has never had since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Towering Grandfather | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...gaining on the leaders, when he broke stride, began to weave. A watcher near the rail had heard something that sounded like a pistol shot. Jockey Gorman slowed the colt down and slipped off. When he saw blood running from Air Lift's left foreleg, Gorman wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Son of Bold Venture | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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