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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oxcarts; stage coaches; a Mormon handcart which had been trundled across Nebraska by foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations." On a twelfth float was a large kettle decked with flags-"The Melting Pot." Beside the pot, as the Goddess of Liberty stood Miss Jean Redick, who also did service during the celebration as Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nebraska's 75th | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...vigor and skill alike are purposeless in a banal, disorganized play which depends for impetus on such lines as these: "But I am too old to marry you." "Daddy, you have pep and life enough for me?make me know it." The gentleman thus addressed is "Bulge" Bannon, black ward boss of Harlem, who, after attempting to use his seductive adopted daughter as a political tool, finds himself in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...plumed tricornered hat on his head, a gaudy rosette of ribbons in his buttonhole. From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic Sword. Along in glory on the back seat sat Most Worshipful Sir William, his robes of scarlet, black and gold, a cocked hat on his head and his heavy chain of office round his neck. In his hand he held a bouquet of sweet smelling herbs (hygienic relic of the Great Plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp After Brass | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Work and Energy", Professor Black, Jefferson Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...Work and Energy." Professor Black. Jefferson Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

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