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...HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Bible Boar | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...Tuesday. Negroes leading mule-drawn floats. Descendants of Acadians munching tac-tac (pop corn), beignets (doughnuts). Prankish youths in cowboy costumes smacking maidens on their fulsome, laughing lips. Public feasts. Electric bulbs. Bacchanalia Motorcycle policemen. Passenger agents. Twelfth Night Revelers. Heebie-Jeebies. Comus, Momus, Mystics. Proteus. More floats. Bourbon Street bounders. Swirling crowds tumbling over one another like waves as they surge through the streets, seeking favors from the nobility aboard the floats. Torches. Band music. "No Parking Along Parade Route." Revelry. Bootleggers. Streaming champagne bottles. Girls. Fat Tuesday. The mystery of night in New Orleans. Dancing, dancing, dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fat Tuesday | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Concerning the night without oil, Prince Louis de Bourbon of Spain, one of the 551 passengers, said: "We had no fear, even though our feet were cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: No Oil | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Wisconsin both of whom talk well, talked last week: John J. Elaine, retiring Governor, U. S. Senator-elect, disciple of the late great free-speech Liberal Robert M. LaFollette; Glenn Prank, President of the University of Wisconsin. . . . Friends of Dr. Frank said he made Governor Blaine look like a Bourbon monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Friends of Dr. Frank said he made Governor Elaine look like a Bourbon monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disciple ? | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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