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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S HUNDRED YEARS- Harriet Connor Brown-Little, Brown ($3). As it must to all men and women, as it did even to Methuselah, Death came last January to Grandmother Brown. She was 101 years, nine months old. One of her daughters-in-law wrote this book about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brown Study | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

This is no rogues' gallery, though with another guide it might have seemed so. Here are the case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutabile Semper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutabile Semper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

"Hoover and Mellon sent a chair to Coolidge the other day. The former President, being a man of very few words, won't thank them until they have sent two beds, a table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newscracker | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

It was the first recognition by a Princeton undergraduate body of Wilson's death. Wilson's fellow Whig and classmate in Princeton's most famed class of 1879, Editor Robert Bridges of Scribner's† talked about his friend "Tommy" Wilson, brilliant conversationalist, Whig Speaker, undergraduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whig's Wilson | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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