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Marion Nevada Talley, youngest man or woman in Who's Who, makes more money than most of that distinguished company. Just old enough to vote, she has earned $334,892 in the last two years in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary. Buxom sweet singer from the middle west, she is sought for concerts the country over. The figure was divulged last week by concert manager Francis C. Coppicus with whom Miss Talley is about to part on none too friendly terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Loud, prolonged hawking showed that not more than 2,500 francs ($100) could be realized for a wench, however buxom, and not over 3,750 francs ($150) was bid for any youth, however strong. Shamed were more than two score of young women for whom the auctioneer could not raise a single bid. Crestfallen and sullen were a score of youths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Humans Auctioned | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table near the window?a table and seat that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject for the time being, he would rise and say to Boswell: "Come, let us walk along Fleet Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Pudding Season | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...PINAFOUR- Gilbert & Sullivan In the shriveled, feeble, almost blind person of Mrs. Carrie King, now cubby-holed in a dingy Man- hattan hotel, it would be hard to recognize the sprightly, buxom girl who was one of the early Buttercups in Gilbert & Sullivan history. That was in the '70s, when she was equipped with a cheery smile and a rare mezzo-soprano voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Miss Ishbel MacDonald, 24, buxom, serious, speaking with an even more pronounced Scotch burr than her father, accompanied him. Anxious, she conferred with Cunard officials who were unable to supply an outside cabin on the short notice given them. At that moment appeared Sir Joseph and Lady Duveen who offered their spacious outside cabin. Sir Joseph Duveen (Art Objects) was insistent. Yet soon a Cunard office boy rushed aboard with information that another suitable cabin had been canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Personages | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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