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...light to his motions. He filled the parlor with his seriousness. . . . Another, Frank Railey, would stop casually on his way up or down the street, or he would take her to row on the pool beyond the town." But when Albert suddenly withdrew his challenge, releasing Theodosia for Florence Agnew, and when Conway Brooke was burned to death in a fire at night, Theodosia Bell began to hear the wild horns of disaster blowing more closely through the quietness. Among the papers of her grandfather she found letters saying that her father was the father also of two Negro girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Heart & Flesh | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...newlywed U. S. bride, because her father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place. While on duty, he has occasion to save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD PRIMGRTON Irving No. 1 No. 1 Bottomley Cotton, No. 2 No. 2 Borden White No. 3 No. 3 Erdman Mandell Back Back Agnew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS TEAR TRIUMPH FROM CRIMSON RIDERS | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

Lost. The program said "a play in three acts by A. E. Thomas and George Agnew Chamberlain." A. E. Thomas has done so much better that many people suspected his share in the proceedings was slight. It is about a Connecticut Yankee (Ramsey Wallace) seeking escape from Brazilian tropics, and his wife's apparent infidelity. While thus employed, he wins the heart of a native girl (Rosalinde Fuller), but decides in the end to go back to Red Hill, Conn., with his wife (Mona Kingsley). The native girl commits suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...sale in London: two Rembrandts, one a landscape at ?1,550, one a portrait of Shah Jehan, one-time Emperor of Hindustan at ?680. Art-man Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, July 5) snatched them, as is his habit. Two drawings by Da Vinci were taken by Thomas Agnew and Sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Purchases | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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