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Secrets. A slender, partly bald little man with a bristling mus- tache, last week carried a mass of official-looking documents to a va- cant lot in Denver, tore the papers to tatters, heaped them high, squirted them with kerosene, touched off a match and cried out over the flames: "Do you think I want homes in Denver ruined? . . . All you poor girls, you troubled women, who have given me your confidence that I might help you, rest now in peace. Your secrets are safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Personages | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...That the British proposal to limit cruisers to 7,500 tons could not be tolerated, chiefly because it would make more than 40 fast British steamers potential cruisers, and also because of U. S. lack of naval bases; 3) That the British had stated their position in such bald terms that the Coolidge Administration would not find such a treaty as the British proposed valuable political capital, but rather the reverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Cruiser Crux | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...bald, intense man answered: "If you get Mr. Flinn to the point where you dare go to bed, I'll lend you my pajamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Doctor | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Patrick surrendered his whole attention to the sick man. The train tore westward. The bald, intense man wrote out a telegram to Mrs. Albert Patrick of Marceline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Doctor | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...with large-scale intimacy. She makes her entrance riding down the aisle on a white Arabian horse. Her locally famed "girlies" rush out among the audience, pelting them with cotton balls. Miss Guinan herself is in the aisles as often as on the stage, shaking hands, bantering wisecracks, kissing bald pates that clearly answer for her rouged caresses. While she is changing costumes, vaudevillians take the stage-Jans & Whalen of the Keith circuit, Laura Wilkinson of the Body obviously Beautiful, singers of blues. There is a heavy tragic skit in which Texas weeps real tears, thanks the audience with honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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