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...heavyweight, is the current red-skinned attraction. The Chief trains on raw meat, spends his spare time weaving blankets, fashioning bracelets and necklaces. Considered the Beau Brummell of the wrestling world, he sports huge sombreros, checked suits, fancy vests, embroidered boots. If his specialty, the Navajo war whoop, fails to prostrate his opponent, he employs the Indian Death Lock, a crushing leg hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...seqiumter porcos with a whoop, Multi sunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Misslouala | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...output of our foundries at this moment is too aggressive, too strident, to be overlooked with a pitying smile. These bronze rowdies whoop and vociferate on all sides. I recently heard a witty artist friend size up the situation in this wise: 'After the Civil War they did the worst they knew how; today we have become more skillful and we are able to do much worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Memorialists | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Senators Nye, Clark and other members of the Congressional peace-by-isolation bloc were, in general, surprised and pleased by the Administration's concessions to their ideas of Neutrality. Meantime this week they planned to bring the nation's peace passion once more to white heat and whoop Neutrality through Congress by haling J. P. Morgan & Co. before their Senate Munitions Investigating Committee, setting out to reveal how much that firm's Allied loans and credits were to blame for sending the U. S. into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peace Proposal | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Fascist officials were far less cocky. Scenting the raid's disastrous effect on foreign opinion, Under-Secretary of State Fulvio Suvich sent a guarded apology to Stockholm. The Press was ordered to make no further reference to the affair but to whoop it up for Sub-Lieut. Tito Minniti, the captured aviator whose decapitation supposedly started the trouble. At Reggio Calabria, the grimy southern town where Minniti was born, flags were half-masted and houses draped in black. Proudly his old Calabrian father cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Ethiopia's Lusitania? | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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