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...feuds between John Francis Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley, sometime Boston mayors. Sons-of-the-system, hot-headed Hibernians, they have called each other most of the names that can be printed and all the unprintable ones. In Dorchester, where they mostly hold their quarrels and reunions, the very ash wagons creak with politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boston Mayor-Friends | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Helen Kane. Helen Kane puts a teasing twist in her delivery of "But-dut-de-dut" or "Vo-do-de-o," which she practiced first in a single act in vaudeville, later in Shubert musical comedy and most recently in Publix Theatres, with the inexpert assistance of Paul Ash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Bravo: and skulls are good for ash trays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietana | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...jovial column conductor who had once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics. One of these, an ash-blonde beauty, lured Marry to her studio, and quickly taught him that his slangy little slum girl was wanting in veneer. But his slangy little Josephine bought herself books on rhetoric and elocution, and disappeared temporarily from Marry's scheme of things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Bad City | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...hips. Twenty operations have been performed on her jaw. The Treatment. None. There is no way known to medical science of removing the radium from the bones of these doomed young women. Said Dr. Martland: "The deposits can be removed only by cremating the bone and then boiling the ash in hydrochloric acid." Keen observers suggested that the bodies of all the unconscious martyrs be exhumed, given to hospitals and laboratories for study, that this great tragedy might add its contribution to scientific knowledge. Newspapers took these five dying women to their ample bosoms. Heartbreaking were the tales of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison Paintbrush | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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