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...Russian acts in this triple role. Over & above this, if he wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand the gaff, he may be a member of the Communist Party. Members are hardly admitted, easily expelled, must "walk a straight & narrow way. With a naughty old wink at the Kremlin and another at the Vatican, the Webbs liken the personnel of the Communist Party to the Society of Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is substantially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U.S.S.R. | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...deliberation, events once rosy take on the stark grimness of reality. True, dangers of the paths are now abolished, but at the sacrifice of an undergraduate prerogative which except for the heart-rending interregnum of the Lowell regime has lasted since Lallement got his patent in 1866. In the wink of an eye a tradition of three-quarters of a century is brought crashing to the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HELL ON WHEELS | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

...favorite-sport, you ask. That is funnay, the thing I like best to do is to go to bed. I also like to swim and ride horseback, but I do so lof to go to bed," and the youngest Velez girl bestowed a well-practised wink on her interviewer as he left to let her prepare for her next show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupe Velez Loves Harvard Boys, but Has Never Sat in John Harvard's Lap | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...message on the bonus bill will be singularly significant. General comment from the Capitol suggests that Mr. Roosevelt will come out openly to rout those who suspect the sincerity of his vote. But politicians in favor of the bill will over be inclined to find some subtlety, some presidential wink in his speech as a sign that the printing presses are to be oiled up and the veto is to be overridden. The President will need all his candor to convince these Senators that his vote is sincere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/16/1935 | See Source »

...loose cheek skin, anchored them at the girl's lip. Quick stitches joined the open parts of the face. Before the operation, the patient had been unable to move a muscle of the left side of her face. Two weeks later, another picture showed, the girl could wink, smile, purse her lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Surgeon | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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