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Reported Engaged. Bess London, daughter of the late novelist Jack London; to one Percy Fleming, of San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...that you've got to use a parachute, then don't fly. ... Or get a plane with more than one engine. . . . Stunt flying isn't commercial aviation. . . . Flying is no greater step forward over driving an automobile than driving an auto was to clucking to Old Bess between the shafts of the one-horse shay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Professional | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...usually inherent in generalities, that England has attained to her greatest artistic heights not under her kings, but under her queens. Whether this be a fact or not, it is undeniable that the pinnacle of English literature at least was attained during the years under "Good Queen Bess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Fourth Queen-Isabel Paterson ($2). Galleon-scuttling, bussing and swearing in the bawdy days of Queen Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ALERT READERS | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Masterson | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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