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...presence of the President he proceeded to call the Senate to ac- count for wasting its time and the country's, telling it that it ought to be ashamed of the way it allowed filibusters to frustrate its action - ashamed! - until the blushes rose even to the brow of the modest President who sat waiting to be inaugurated (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: President Dawes | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow of George Gershwin. Walter Damrosch besought him to write a jazz concerto for the New York Symphony Society; Composer Gershwin said he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gershwin | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...point Dr. Millikan was carrying on his experiments on top of Pike's Peak with featherweight instruments buoyed in air by small balloons; at another time he probed 60 feet deep in a snow-fed lake under the brow of Mount Whitney. Since it would take 10,000,000 volts to reproduce the ray artificially, Dr. Millikan points out that there is little likelihood of his discovery being utilized for some time to come. The Academicians were interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Madison | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...front of the Del Fey Club; Thaw followed a drugget of light on the pavement; a door closed behind him. When the reporter's knuckles a moment later belabored that door, a panel in its upper section slid back and in the slit appeared the bulldog brow of a surly doorkeeper. The reporter was a man typical of his kind, a seedy fellow, drearily accoutred. No evening shirt fluted his meagre bosom. No glittering lady stood beside him. He was obviously not wealthy. He was not a member of the "Club." "Beat it, Buddy," said the grim face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Back | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...Hara started his speech by commenting on the differences of the Harvard of today and the Harvard of ten years ago. The chief trouble with Harvard at present is, according to Mr. O'Hara, that the students are too "high-brow," or as he later explained, "Harvard is 20 percent American, and 80 percent Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'HARA CONVULSES UNION AUDIENCE | 10/29/1925 | See Source »

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