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The Row, a straight mile of tanbark along the southern edge of Hyde Park, is as sacred to British horsemen as Shakespeare's tomb is to poets, Westminster to statesmen. It is the King's Road (the name is a British attempt to pronounce Route du Rois), the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Desecration! | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Havana. Crowds were forbidden. Anyone who "gossiped against the Government" was liable to 15 days in jail, & a $50 fine, as was anyone who appeared in the streets bareheaded and wearing a beard. Police had discovered that a bristling beard and a bare head were being adopted by young Cubans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Gibara | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

For the first time since he nearly died of pneumonia two years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Snuffles, Laborite Defiance | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Behind them came the Pope Who Left the Vatican, Pius XI. He was riding?a minute figure almost immersed in a white mantle. Bareheaded because of the heat, he gazed fixedly at the Host. Around him strode a jeweled assemblage. Above him waved a velvet canopy of scarlet and gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope Emerges | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Countered the Association Journal last week: "Smoking ... by women has no apparent influence over the functions of the genital system. . . . There is no mention [in expert research on the subject ] of tobacco heart in newborn children. . . . The morality of smoking by women is not a medical concern any more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. Convention | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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