Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gillmore, late of the Theatre Guild, is his wide-eyed partner in supertemporal romance. These two extract fine philosophical nuance as well as fantasy from their curious roles. All three acts are laid in a Queen Anne drawing room, magnificently rendered by Sir Edwin Lutyens, famed British architect (TIME, Aug. 12), containing an easel originally owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...crash came on Oct. 23, 1929, is as mysterious (and as unimportant) as why the World War chanced to begin on Aug. 4, 1914. If some trace the War no further than to an archducal assassination, then others might trace the Crash to a variety of such moments as that when Goldman Sachs terminated the syndicate on their Blue Ridge investment trust. Vital point is the undermining of popular confidence that ended in the crash...
...Huston) who lets no one "officiate" for him; 2) A tendency to "leak" to newspapermen about President Hoover's political troubles; 3) A cloud cast by Mrs. Willebrandt's accusation, and never dispelled by his feeble denial, that Mr. Burke sanctioned her religio-political campaign speeches (TIME, Aug. 19); 4) Failure to deal successfully with Southern Hoovercrats; 5) A capacity for arousing antagonisms against the President among heterodox Senators...
...recent popularity of L'Americain dates from three years ago when Prime Minister Poincaré made him Minister of Public Works in his "Cabinet of Sacred Union" (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Soon he faced a threatened strike of one-third of a million French coal miners. Diving into the fray he managed in one week to win both operators and employes to his plan of settlement?which involved financial sacrifices by both. When the present cabinet crisis occurred with the fall of the government of Aristide Briand, the tenacious Dauphin was clinging to his Ministery of Interior (bestowed by Poincar?...
...Century. Phoenixlike was the Century. Last August Editor Hewitt Hanson Rowland declared that "with added leisure in which to make a better magazine" Century's editors would give their subscribers "added leisure in which to read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). From 1906 to 1928 Century's circulation had dropped from 150,000 to 22,000. Last week, undismayed by the swan song of the quarterly Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review...