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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York University, heretofore undefeated, went all the way to Nebraska so that Connor, hugging the brown bladder, could run 62 yards. He scored, but a shadow was cast upon the brightness of his team's season. Nebraska made 8 first downs to 1, 15 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Hokum it is, and oldfashioned, but, none the less, it keeps the onlooker clutching, crinkling his program throughout. Beth Merrill, who looks like Jeanne Eagels, plays the gawky pride of the prairies, rolls out her pointed conversation with a pleasant, if not authentic, Western drawl. In fact, the entire cast creates effective illusion. If the West is not like that, it ought to be. Best and most remarkable of all is Impresario Belasco's staging. A little thing like the creation of the firmaments is, to him, child's play. Alexander Woollcott: "Then Mr. Mack apologized. . . . Why, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Darmstadt, Germany, lives a slender ascetic gentleman in life's early autumn; bald over the temples, high and round of brow, thinly bearded and of a faintly Oriental cast of countenance. He is Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher. He conducts a School of Wisdom, where mature thinkers go by petition or invitation to contemplate problems of great moment to mankind; where philosophical treatises are conceived, prescribed, submitted, criticized, developed, issued to the world. Count Keyserling's chief preoccupation is with the Western World, whose soul and mind he and others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Wedlock | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...complete cast follows: Pantolone A. M. Abramson '29 Prince Kent Smith '29 Creonta L. H. Ennis '28 Leander R. H. Jones '30 Harlequin Barry Bingham '28 H. Dottore R. C. Darling '29 Sganerello K. A. Perry '28 King G. K. Bishop '27 Stranger D. W. Moreland '28 Captain G. S. Loewenstein '28 First Venetian Abbott Peterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian Charles Leatherbee '29 Third Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Soldier, Gambler R. N. Bennett '28 Priest G. W. Harrington '30 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Princess Mary Caperton Fata M. Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field Violetta Mary Leonard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CAST FOR ITS FORTHCOMING PRODUCTION, "THE ORANGE COMEDY" | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Fifteen minutes later there pulled up on the siding next the faithful a titanic freight locomotive, geared to pull 110 freight cars at 40 miles an hour. It puffed mockingly at Mr. Denihan and his friends. Attached to it was one lone daycoach, at which covetous glances were cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strongminded Statesman and Stupendous Steamengine Save Students From Starvation, Stranded in Stygian Station | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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