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...America* for a third annual concert. Two years ago 540 of them had sung together at Carnegie Hall; found Carnegie Hall too small for glee club enthusiasts. Last year 856 of them had sung at the Metropolitan Opera House; found it too small. Last week they met at the 71st Regiment Armory, 11,000 capacity; found it a happier choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schicchi | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

Lilac, oriental bouquet, jasmine, French bouquet, violet, rose. That is the order in which women prefer perfumes, according to tests made on 200 girls of Barnard and Teachers' College by Professor Albert T. Poffenberger, Columbia psychologist. The results were confirmed by more numerous subjects at the 71st Regiment Armory Perfume Show. With men the order was lilac, French bouquet, jasmine, oriental bouquet, rose, violet. With advancing age, men and women both tend to prefer more pungent perfumes than lilac, though young girls like them too. Slim women and all young men want faint perfumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perfume | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: High Explosion | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

Captain Henry M. Atkinson Jr. '15. (with 71st. Artillery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roll of Honor Completed | 6/10/1921 | See Source »

...recent events at Cornell the most interesting have been the ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the Brown Memorial Tablet. This was given by the Senior class in memory of C. B. Brown '00, of the 71st New York Volunteers, who fell at El Caney. It will be placed in the Alumni Hall, and is the work of Mr. Bela L. Pratt of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell News | 2/6/1900 | See Source »

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