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...amusing to watch the propaganda of the elder Roosevelt stick its head up, break out a Rooseveltian double-barreled grin, and shout "Bully!" Balloon Buster Luke* is here not so much an aviator as one who loudly condemned our shameful inactivity prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroes | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Miss Lillie* gained reputation several years ago when she suddenly burst upon a placid metropolis in Chariot's Revue. She sang serious patriotic songs in a gravely irreverent manner. She did many unusual things with her eyes, voice, hands and strange, straight face which sometimes re minds one of Buster Keaton at his best. She played another Chariot show, and ever since some one has been trying to star her in a musical show all her own. Again the attempt is incomplete. It is every body's fault but Miss Lillie's. It is chiefly the fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Seventieth | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard Night" is to be observed this evening at Loew's State when the Back Bay theatre is to put on a program of general Harvard interest. The main feature of the program is to be Buster Keaton in "College", a typical burlesque of the collegiate picture. A comedy entitled "Harvard vs. Yale", and Creator and his band make up the rest of the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Harvard Night" at Loew's State | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...take a hand in a free-for-all fight. He would not, however, be a contender in a tennis match, golf game or cross country run, for the reason that he has had no taste or training for the latter trinity. The President knows he is not a bronco buster, and further knows that he is needed as President of the United States. While I am a Democrat I have always admired Coolidge's Democracy (not political) and think he has made a wonderful President. Honest in everything. Self-seeking in nothing, perhaps a bit slow in making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Necaragua | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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