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...glutinous flour, hose water, impossible eggs, red paint, mustard and sick fruit have hurtled against their immaculate facades what time incoming classes, while posing for their photographs, have been advised by sophomores that vanity is not pleasing to the gods. But the freshmen have always laved the temples afterward until they shone pristine and classic as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words, Words | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...ceiling, we convey almost nothing to the reader. Perhaps it would be better to mention the ballet dancer whose knees kept letting her down onto the stage, or the singer who turned a back flip on the final note of the famous aria from Aida, and started clogging directly afterward. But all in all it is hard to express the true spirit of matters bughouse, for Mr. Anderson has done it in such a variety of ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...exorcised her in the oratory of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs, and wish to add that she was completely dressed at the time, as stories told and written about me afterward were that I had obliged her to undress before exorcising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Abbe Flogged | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...Shortly afterward the measure passed amid the usual Fascist acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Permanent War | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...staff of General Grant. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox Court House. The day after his arrival back in Washington he was present at his father's assassination. Two years later he was admitted to the bar in Illinois and shortly afterward married. In 1881 he became Secretary of War under President Garfield. He arrived one day at a railway station to meet Mr. Garfield, and as he did so Garfield was shot. He was the only member of Garfield's Cabinet retained by President Arthur; so he served a full four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Political Notes - Il Penseroso | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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