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...There are a goodly percentage of TIME readers, naturally inclined to solve puzzles, rebuses, who would gloat over your Quiz. Another big percentage, denied sufficient time in their educational years to get what the Quiz practically supplies, would be able positively to lift themselves by their boot straps. Yet it seems to me (a three-score-and-ten-year man, generally placed in the all-round category) somehow out of place or not dovetailing in with your plan and scope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

Hindenburg Boot. At the fair the first sight to greet him was the "Hindenburg Boot"?17 feet high, with a sole six feet long, equipped with a barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however?to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Leipsic Fair | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House absolutely proved, and that is the old French proverb that no man is ever a hero to his valet." He referred to Colonel House as "this little man that no one ever would have heard of but for his boot-licking proclivities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: House Papers | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...football season will receive its first boot tonight when Coach Horween addresses all prospective members of Captain Coady's squad at 7 o'clock in the Varsity Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUAD WILL MEET HORWEEN TONIGHT | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

Unfortunately for some people he writes his own plays, and aims them straight at the blunt heads of the middle-class. His purpose is to make people happy, and in the cheapness of his conception he can see only such trite comedy props as boot-leg whiskey, puppy-love, and husband vs. wife warfare in three rounds. As a playwright he has never tired of such obvious tricks of the trade as Owen Davis uses in many of his off moments. Still as a star he remains wholly sincere and genuine. It is fortunate for his plays that he usually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/18/1926 | See Source »

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