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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business, upon his return from a compulsory year at Atlanta, was last week elected treasurer of the New York Hockey Club, made one of the directors along with Mayor Walker. To celebrate he gave a dinner for officials of the club and sports writers. The affair was extremely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Submarine. Handsome Jack Dorgan was a Navy diver. Between him and Bob Mason there was much horseplay and jostling, which, as every cinemaddict knows, is the way strong men have of showing affection for each other. Handsome Jack (Jack Holt) has an affair with Snuggles (Dorothy Revier), grows so fond of her ways that he actually marries her. Unknown to Handsome Jack, Snuggles seduces Best Friend Mason who happens to be a member of a submarine crew. When Jack learns that there has been an affair he is angry with his friend. The submarine in which Mason is cruising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Last week, this first-class historian or rabble-rouser or both, went to Charlottesville, Va., to the Institute of Public Affairs. There he met many another professor, nearly all of them in a mood to speak out smartly on many a public affair. But, again it was John Holladay Latane who spoke most decidedly out. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Charlottesville | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Paris for a skyscraper, and proceeded to produce 1,000 models a year under 20th century working conditions. Lelong is popular with U. S. buyers. Particularly popular are his three perfumes : "A," for the exotic woman (or the unexotic woman who, acting out of character, is attending an exotic affair); "B," the perfume pour le sport; "C," the delicate scent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Though Soames had adored his first wife, and forced his adoration on her as his propertied right, he was true to his Victorianism in casting her out when she was "unfaithful." By contrast, his daughter's husband suffered bitterly over Fleur's affair with Jon, but he bore with her infidelity. Whether the difference in the two generations is an advance in civilization or a deterioration in force of character, Mr. Galsworthy rather emphasizes the latter by Jon's vague back-to-nature farming venture, and Michael's disarming but nonetheless softy campaign to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saga Done | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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