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...France, perhaps in France alone, the traditions of la haute cuisine survive from the days of the great gastronomes. Alexandre Dumas Père sighed: "My books piled one upon another have the stature of a colossus. Who has not read my Three Musketeers? Yet in my heart I desire above all things to die the greatest cook of our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Art, Sauces, Honor | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...task for a mental colossus as long as scholarship and instruction retain their Slamese relationship. Nor do standard curricula always assist toward the desired end. They sometimes spring from separate departments and emmesh the student, without being subject to correlation by a whole faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYSTACK | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

...played by tradition and sentiment in raising the hope of a new Empire, has been overlooked. It is only the extraordinary methods of the dictator that distinguish him from his predecessors. His ambitions for Italy are the same. And it is doubtful whether, despite his success as a popular colossus, his feet are not of the same clay as theirs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOUNTAIN OF GLAMOUR | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

What will the boys of Blackrock College, where he is again a professor, think of being taught "maths" by such a colossus? The answer is irrelevant. Mr. de Valera has a large* family to support and to support it he must work like all others in that country "where peace has broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Professor | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Louie the 14th. Leon Errol's legs straddle this musical comedy like those of the Colossus at Rhodes. Florenz Ziegfeld's latest musical pageant and village carnival has been produced on a scale of towering magnificence. It outshines a Mardi Gras festival and the Follies combined. But unless the book had Mr. Errol's legs to uphold it, it could hardly stand on its own feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

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