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Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, no neurasthenic, drew the knife calmly from where it quivered, pocketed it, motioned his chauffeur to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Leg Broken | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Bounding out of bed, dressing impeccably, packing his suitcase, giving instructions to his chauffeur-whom he had gone to Philadelphia to find-vivacious young Publisher Vanderbilt then sped off for Los Angeles, eager for a fresh start on his already eventful career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Many an old proverb is made over, thus: "It is a very silly boy who isn't on to his old man." The summer sorrows of the super-rich are assuaged, with instructions for amusing the butler in the evenings, getting the chauffeur's collars starched, and so on. And the author modestly relates "How My Wife and I Built Our Home for $4.90" after the approved manner of the American Magazine. Ladies' culture and gents' luncheon clubs, of which Mr. Leacock addresses a great many, will find a few genial descriptions of themselves, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Laughing Leacock | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Motioning his chauffeur to a seat beside the wheel, Il Duce seized it himself, kicked open the cutout, vanished before news gatherers could ask whither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Donna Rachele | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...without slackening. From Rome it fled across Umbria and Tuscany into the hills of Forli. A quirk of the thumb and Mussolini cut the ignition. An easy swing of the wheel and he coasted silently up the drive of a country villa at Carpena. Dazed, the Premier's chauffeur looked about him, rubbed caked dust from smarting eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Donna Rachele | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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