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Once while Horace sat at work amid a wallow of discarded newspapers there entered a caller. But Horace did not turn around. "Ahem, I am Commodore Vanderbilt," the visitor announced, after a moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...girl tell just what New York critics, Mr. Sirovich has in mind? Thank you-the next puzzle competition will consist in guessing the missing letters in Philadelpia. Henry E. Dixey and Wilton Lackaye had been on the road together in The Circle for the last eight months not without-ahem-some differences of opinion. So " Let's fight it out-10 rounds to a decision " said Mr. Dixey (64) to Mr. Lackaye (61) when the last performance came. But the shade of the Marquis of Queensbury or somebody interrupted the threatened fisticuffs and now Mr. Lackaye says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...more interested in purely social gossip-the-ahem!- flittings of the stork and other such affairs. Zit's Weekly will keep you posted on matters town-topical with considerable frankness. And it runs a weekly column of " Greenwich Village Chatter " which every proprietor of a batik tearoom should read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sisters Wow in Tab | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...Yale Record, speaking of tennis, says that Yale men look for "ultimate victory over Harvard in that branch of athletics in which, graceful, lady-like, yet extremely difficult, she is peculiarily fitted to shine." Ahem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/14/1884 | See Source »

...Ahem! For New England, partly cloudy weather, followed by increasing cloudiness and rain areas, variable winds, mostly from the north-east, falling barometer and stationary temperature," promptly responded the Bulletin Board, in a voice that told me not to bother him with useless questions. Before I could say anything more I saw in the distance four individuals, so lean and lank that I thought they must have some connection with Memorial Hall; and, in fact, they proved to be the Gargoyles from the tower. Following them came the two Pumps, who extended to me their handles, and shook hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

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