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...many years to live. Both lived until 1929, long enough to see their elder son become one of England's top social planners. Annette Beveridge was 86 when she died, nearly stone-deaf at the last and vigorously translating Turkish biography. "Perhaps the cleverest lady and the wickedest in her opinions that I have ever met," said Bernard Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlighted Places | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Possibly Hollywood, which is capable of blushing, has heard about the pot and the kettle; in any case, unsure pacing and thin delivery cause a lot of the wickedest haymakers against radio and money-love to land rather light. For all Actor Greenstreet's enthusiasm, Soap Sponsor Evans is so fantastically brutal that most people may think him a freak, rather than a personification of one kind of big-business tyranny. And Adolphe Menjou, expert as he is as the head of the agency, appears more interested in getting laughs than in illustrating what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Shanghai hands weep on your shoulder and tell you how terrible all this is, compared to the lush old days. But U.S. servicemen are enjoying themselves in the fattest, gayest and wickedest city in the Pacific theater-that is, for people with cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: It's Wonderful | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...dead: private detectives guarded Chicago's early graveyards. Between Bull Run and the great fire of 1871 roared the first of Chicago's incredible booms, in which everything but the police force expanded. Result was Chicago's reputation in the Civil War decade as "the wickedest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down the Cesspool | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Their obvious use would be in night bombing raids. For that job they carry the wickedest slug in the air. A fully loaded B-17 carries five tons of bombs in its belly, can lug them in any size, from 100 to 2,000 pounds. Its prodigious cruising range with full load is 3,000 miles; it can go out 1,200 miles and return, with 20% reserve in fuel. Operating from Britain, with tanks only half full, B-17s could bomb Berlin. With full tanks they could reach the great armament plants in Prague, mess up the vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: AIR: B-l7s to Britain? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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