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...plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection he has to the passion flowers of Hollywood is that he prophesied a dozen years ago that they would wither...

Author: By H. B., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

...wither'd and so wild in their attire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Hustler | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Tammany-made industrial code for the protection of wage-earners of both sexes have been copied by most of the States of the Union and by foreign governments is never stressed by the leather-lunged hirelings of so-called 'reform movements' that sprout, attain rank, growth, and wither, all within a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tammany | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...mean a leader who will provide incentives to the creative energies of his people, combing the nation over for its creative brains, seeing to it that no atom of genius is allowed to wither in isolation or starve for lack of recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Time for Culture | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Last Relics | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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