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...royal suite, held sacred to the Mikado and his family or visiting royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered Tokyo police and engaged in a street brawl. The U. S. consul, irate, had thereafter refused to receive Dean Lough of the Floating Unversity. The disorderly ones were virtually deported. Their names: Duncan MacMartin, Enos Richardson, Wendall C. Goddard of New York; Harry R. Addison of Cleveland; Frank T. Morgan of New Haven, Conn.; George E. Tierney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brothers | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Which explains a lot about the Brigham Younger generation. and it proves that: the person who said the worst brawl in America was the Harvard Junior Prom is all wrong. But not everyone gets as far west as Utah. We're not all Roumanians...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

...Waupun, Wis., speeches were made, presents given, and an old man stood up to thank his friends for remembering him. He, one William Maxwell, 88, had completed his fifty-fourth year in the State penitentiary. He once killed a man in a saloon brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prisoner | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Argumentative Murder. At Germersheim in the Rhineland a group of German civilians were drawn into a brawl with French officers as a result of the revival of War guilt talk last week. One Lieutenant Roucier. shot and killed one Herr Emil Mueller by way of thrusting home the assertion that Raymond Poincare did not start the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: War Guilt Encore | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee for Congress. Evidently, Congress is Mr. Wilton's idea of the ne plus ultra, for he decides to live forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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