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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer, it can clearly be seen, will men be content with the sober greys and browns and blacks of common use. No longer will the proud possessor of a "well turned calf" hide it in flapping cylinders, or at best set it forth to little advantage under plus fours. It is only a question of time, and of the advent of a man of spirit, before the black and white of evening dress gives way to silken hose and satin knee-breeches, vests of gorgeous brocade and cloaks of rainbow colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SILKS AND SATINS | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...gentleman whose face adorns the U. S. Buffalo nickel giving vent to a sudden mood of loquacity which had come over him at the sight of Secretary of the Interior Hubert S. Work. They were met in Lawrence, Kan., last week, where the loquacious Chief Two Guns White Calf had led 26 of his Blackfeet tribesmen from Montana for a polytribal "powwow" at famed Haskell Institute, which had a new football stadium to dedicate.† Secretary Work conversed briefly with Mr. White Calf, then went along to lecture to the students of the University of Kansas, on Mount Oread, overlooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Far West | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...their followers- Chief Bacon Rind and his Osages, John Quapaw, and his Quapaws, White Buffalo (with pink ribbons in his albino locks) and his Cheyennes; many a Comanche, Arapahoe, Creek, Sioux, Winnebago, Ute, Pueblo, Navajo-all to the number of 1,500. Despite the intellectual salutation of Mr. White Calf, the assemblage did not have the air of a racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing in the new stadium (which cost $250,000 and was given entirely by Indians) - dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Far West | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...reform, she blossoms forth as athletic heroine and wins many foot races for her seat of learning. In one of these, Bebe Daniels beats her famed fiance Charlie Paddock, to the tape-being goaded on the way to victory by the encroachments of a mouse upon her sensitive calf. Another one of the screen's trivia, with an agreeable comedienne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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