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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compliment or not. If it means that I am not as good as he is, I object. If, as somebody has just told me, the second string starts in to function only when the first was broken down, I don't quite see where I come in. He did not show any signs of breaking down. In fact, I thought he was too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twits Wales | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Bishop Brent thanked Metropolitan Troianos for his frankness, reminding the delegates that they had come to find out how far they could agree, not to suppress their consciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Lausanne | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...such people the exalted declaration at Stony Brook last week were confirmations of their hopes; the statement of Dr. Arno Clemens Gaebelein of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., editor since 1894 of Our Hope, a religious magazine, was a fact. Said he: "The second coming of Christ is near. Christ's return will be forecast by a figure sitting on a cloud with something similar to a sickle in his hand. The cloud will flush with a glorious light, then Christ is to come and all the holy angels will come with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prophecy | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Dolly and Alan, of course, come through unscathed together, with far less assistance from their creator than might be expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...really being in St. Paul's Cathedral. His most recent letter appeared last month-on Beethoven. Meanwhile he has written on every subject, but chiefly "of graves, of worms and epitaphs." Searching for epistolary material he has become an expert on London and Paris burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows of abstinence. For three years he struggled heroically against the deadly fascination of the habit. The habit won. Then Algernon Ashton faced his weakness squarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: False Rumor | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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