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"The average American, like the average Canadian and Australian, lives in the past, and he cannot resist a feeling, which in truth he rather cherishes as a grievance, that English men of that type, however much they may try to conceal it, regard themselves as members of an exclusive caste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Good Old Mac! | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Rin Tin Tin, but it would be hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Of the Chandor work, Sir Joseph Duveen has written: "What his portraits reveal is the impression of personal dignity coupled always with charm. The material likeness is there, presented by a sound craftsman; but above all, there is the caste and character discerned by the artist whose eyes are always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter Chandor | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

An important by-product of the Jones missionary work is the impending disintegration of India's rock-ribbed caste system. The Nationalist movement and infiltrations of Western civilization have already shaken it. But, says Dr. Jones. Christianity's recognition of individuals and their equality in the sight of God will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Indian Road | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

On the other hand, the younger graduate is more inclined to appreciate the prerogatives possessed by the contemporary Harvard man. He probably feels that the evils of present day Harvard undergraduate life are less obnoxious than they are painted by the warmest supporters of the Housing system. For undergraduate life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROSE-COLORED GLASSES | 3/29/1929 | See Source »

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