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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cyclone Lover. One is compelled to suppose that the U. S. embodiment of the ideal lover is a gawky youth, timid and smirking, fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...chills, prostration, incapacitating the victim for months. Before achieving the dignity of a disease with a name, it had often been confused with typhoid because the germ resembles typhoid bacillus. Since its recognition 430 cases have been reported, 18 deaths; only nine states in the extreme northeastern U. S. appear to be unaffected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Minneapolis | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Viking Press, rounding out its third year of publishing, announces an interesting list of books scheduled to appear next Fall Ford Madov Ford is contributing a new historical romance. "A Little Less than Gods", and T. F. Powys follows up his "Mr Weston's Good Wine" of this Spring, with a group of short stories The little blue volumes of "Sakis" short stories which are beginning to recover and enlarge upon then pre-war popularity in England will receive another addition next fall...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...call it what you will, the process, in greater or less degree, is not confined to fiction. Men have started in life with good intentions and ended reprobates. When the catastrophy comes in such cases. When, for example; an embezzlement is discovered, a long series of gradually increasing malversations appear, beginning with a self-pretence of borrowing money to be replaced, growing by degrees more reckless and ending in desperation. All along there is a series also of excuses causing the edge of the conscience to become gradually dulled. The end was not willed from the beginning; there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL GIVES BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS BEFORE ASSEMBLY IN APPLETON CHAPEL--EMPHASIZES NECESSITY FOR CLEAR VISION IN LIFE | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...call it what you will, the process, in greater or less degree, is not confined to fiction. Men have started in life with good intentions and ended reprobates. When the catastrophy comes in such cases. When, for example; an embezzlement is discovered, a long series of gradually increasing malversations appear, beginning with a self-pretence of borrowing money to be replaced, growing by degrees more reckless and ending in desperation. All along there is a series also of excuses causing the edge of the conscience to become gradually dulled. The end was not willed from the beginning; there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Spread Initiates Week Of Festivity for Finishing Class | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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