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...conquered yet, and it is such incidents as this latest flight which show unsuccess. With all the encroachments of science on the domains of sea and sky, that man still has need of triple bronze who, like the two lost flyers, or like Chamberlin and Bertrand, who are preparing their own trans-Atlantic trip, will venture against the perennial foes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AES TRIPLEX | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...sheer bigotry recent repressive action against freedom of expression at the University of Washington deserves the prize. Simultaneous new dispatches from Seattle contain the information that H. J. Chambers, Instructor in English, has been placed on probation and refused reappointment for reading to his class the first chapter of Bertrand Russell's "What I Believe", and that editors of "Columns", the monthly literary magazine, have been barred from all campus activities for a year and their magazine suspended for publishing a burlesque life of Abraham Lincoln...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROUNDSMEN OF THE HORD | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

...change, but the mother is much happier. Again: A dullish Mr. Mellish, given to heroine-worship, is taught his wife's heroism. An over-intense beauty kills two husbands with her love and ambition for them. . . . The normal living pitch implied by Miss Ertz reminds one of Bertrand Russell's "good life." But just to show what she can imagine, a horror story is also included, blacker than bats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedtime Stories | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Tommy. Playwrights Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson have hit upon an intriguing situation: a boy in love with a girl, the girl in love with him, the wedding bells dumb because the girl's parents also favor the match. Once the hero succeeds in irritating the parents into objecting, the heroine's vast desire for a gesture of romantic rebellion is gratified and the wedding accomplished. What the playwrights have done with this tempting situation is, first, to build up an impressive number of ingenious but superficial complications, explaining each little complication as it approaches, when it arrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...President invites friendly political bigwigs, industrial potentates, labor chiefs, farmers' friends to White Pine Camp. They all go away, give out interviews, make speeches, whoop it up for "Coolidge and Prosperity." Last week came Howard Elliott (railroads), Earle P. Charlton (Woolworth, 5 & 10), Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York (on his second prosperity loud-speaking this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The New Front Porch | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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