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...buff trip slip for a six-cent fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Buff" Cobb did not permit college proms and parades to trample, nor her father's literary cigar smoke to stifle, her dancing spark of originality. She irreverently wrote in the Bookman, when she should have been thinking that the Bad Boys of the oldtime Smart Set were Great Intellects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...there is anything to denote the stretch of suburbia called Merion as an important adjunct of Philadelphia, it is a 12-acre park, full of rare trees, graveled drives and smooth lawns, surrounding an edifice of buff French limestone where hangs the most notable U. S. collection of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Argyrol into Art | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Leyelland, Tex., T. T. McDevitt's little buff prairie dog* sat on his rear stoop and scolded the children as they went to school. The children would stick their tongues out at him, for he was tame and scolded only because his mother and father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dogs | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Having provided the future business man of the country with a modern Utopia over the river with all conveniences, not forgetting cheerful dining establishments with buff and rose wall patterns and lacquered panelings, it is contemplated that the finishing touch would be supplied if the graduate business man could meditate over his favorite pipe of tobacco, whether it be Prince Albert, Edgeworth or the latest Union brand. Indeed, someone in authority has stated that if he had his way every man would be compelled to smoke, that he likes to see a man smoke a pipe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Library Is First to Permit Smoking--Breaks Ancient Tradition Dating Back to Sir Walter Raleigh's Time | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

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