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...White House dogs had been taken along for a romp in the country-Tiny Tim, the ruddy chow; Bessie, the yellow collie; Diana, the white collie, King Cole, the black Belgian police dog. President Coolidge sat down in the club living room to see and hear Movietones of himself making his Thanksgiving proclamation, and of Kings George of England and Alfonso of Spain. The moving, talking figures on the screen excited the dogs, infuriated them. They barked and barked and BARKED. President Coolidge helped chase them from the room. The show began over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Florence Reed has never before played a Shakespearian role though she rehearsed in Hamlet with E. H. Sothern in 1907. She devoted her talents in 1917 to the long continued spectacularities of Chu Chin Chow, wherein Ali Baba and his robbers concealed themselves at the Manhattan Opera House ; hers also was the somewhat wanton Shanghai Gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...visited Casper, Wyo., hard by the famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek oil reserves. In cutaway and striped trousers, he sat down for "chow" with oil-drillers in a mess hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Robinson | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...even make tea for my babies. We have no tea or sugar either. But when the rain cleared and I decided to go to the city hall where things were distributed, I was embarrassed beyond words. The Red Cross clerk insolently asked me "What do you want, chow?" I was so ashamed that I'd preferred to die." Now those people are sensitive, they have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Subscriber Rivera's sister conquer her neurosis or "inferiority complex" and boldly demand her fair share of food from the American Red Cross. Let no insolent clerk again upset her by crying, "Chow" Let Subscriber Rivera report to TIME that all is now well, or otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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