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...Donahey is a peach. She's had twelve children???ten are living?and she's listened to Vic's banging since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW BOOK: Gubernatorial Spoon River* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

Ulrika piles up a fortune on commissions out of the general flood of money, after she has thoroughly demoralized the children???the only son develops into a degenerate?and brought the rest of her own family and friends to feed at the trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the influence, and a battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold*: What's Wrong with the World? | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...idol); his "masterful wooing" just swept her off her feet. The jealous wife of her boss made her business position impossible. She married Martin. The marriage lasted four years. Martin was extravagant?too good a spender ?his ideas of marriage and Jeannette's didn't jibe?he wanted children???she said they couldn't afford them?she missed her independence. The break came, when, at last, she went back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bread* | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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