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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead, but London's aristocracy remained, despite postwar cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside, inside St. Margaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Lonliness | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Companionate Marriage" will be the subject of a debate between Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the Juvenile Court of Denver, Colorado, and the Reverend H. H. Crane, scheduled for Symphony Hall Tuesday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lindsey to Treat Companionate Unions | 3/1/1928 | See Source »

...Home State went, so went the country, in the good old days when men shouldered torchlights and platforms were beer barrels. And among the indicative Home States the name of Ohio was for the political boss like to that of Abou Ben Adhem. Till Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOO MANY CHILDREN | 2/14/1928 | See Source »

...members of the Dance Committee spent several days in New York interviewing well-known orchestra leaders. Among those treated with were Roger Wolfe Kahn, Don Voorhees, Ben Bernie and others, but after thoroughly weighing the respective advantages it was decided to engage Markels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK ORCHESTRA TO FEATURE JUNIOR DANCE | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost a year of diligent seeking, by the election of Barrister Ben- nett as Conservative Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Ottawa | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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