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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vision of bleak grey prison walls, is not a "bad" prison. From the Indian "ossine ossine"? "stone upon stone"?came its name, appropriate to the old damp-walled dungeon beside the river, with cells 7 ft. x 3 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 6 in., built in 1825. But today most of the inmates live in new cell blocks on the hill above the Hudson River. The sizeable cells are equipped with modern sanitary apparatus. In each is a desk and chair. At the head of each bed is a, radio headphone. Prison-wise felons would rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Near the end of the procession and most important was the lumbering gilded coach of the Lord Mayor. Built in 1757, its panels decorated by the famed allegorical painter Cipriani, the Civic Coach is quite as imposing as the State Coach of George V. Six horses drew it. Seated on the festooned box was the splendiferous Lord Mayor's coachman, his fat calves gleaming in pink silk stockings, a plumed tricornered hat on his head, a gaudy rosette of ribbons in his buttonhole. From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp After Brass | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...already told U. S. and Canadian reporters, namely that: 1) The forthcoming Naval Disarmament Pact will be based upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet in London next January; 3) In the Hoover-MacDonald statement of last month (from which the Prime Minister quoted copiously last week) the two Governments declared, "in a new and reinforced sense," that war between them is "unthinkable," and that mutual "distrusts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Squabbles | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...bronze-colored man, magnificently built, scrupulously dressed, walked on the stage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week and waited quietly for his audience to settle. Then he began in a voice the color of his skin to sing "I Got a Home on a Rock, Don' You See." The singer was not Roland Hayes, although for years Hayes has been the only Negro to sell out a hall of Carnegie's size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...gone a little too far. In the first place, women have had centuries of practice in forcing men to ask the proper question at the correct time while the male experience has been confined to merely acting on the hints. Moreover, the less favored of the female sex have built up that great tradition of not beautiful, but nice, so admirably supported by well meaning aunts, while man is merely conceited or ugly. Men have, after all, been fairly patient in bearing with feminine supremacy, and it does seem to be a little too much of a gloating attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIG AND THE DATE | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

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