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...Roosevelt's disposal. By rights the Treasury should be his again for the asking. The Ambassadorship to Britain is another possibility. Specific offices, so far as can be learned, were not part of the Congress Hotel Deal that turned the convention to Roosevelt, but involved was one of those wordless agreements that all honest politicians recognize and understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The West & Washington | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Unlike other U. S. officials, President Hoover labored at his desk Washington's birthday. At noon he motored with Mrs. Hoover to Alexandria, Va., helped Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard review a parade. Later he went on to Mt. Vernon to pay a three-minute, wordless visit to the first President's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Intangibles | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings by such superficially trivial things as a joke, a gesture in the night, an endearment as trite as "darling." And as they make their escape from Italy in a rowboat, survey the Alps from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man, Woman, War | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Equity arbitrators then met, discussed God and his acts. Appalled by the cosmic dimensions of their dilemma, they adjourned, wordless. But at their meeting last week they were so fortunate as to find a way out. They announced that Mr. Harris owed his actors two weeks' salary. Their reason: Nothing in the contracts prevented him from employing a substitute for Actress Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Act of God? | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...wordless book, a swordless sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senate Week | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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