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Mr. Lardner was not actually concerned in the writing of the play, yet the leading character resembles his celebrated Jack Keefe, the conceited, blatant young professional baseballer. If the resemblance had been accurate, Solid Ivory might have been a sensation. As it is, it is simply a fair slang comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

A lady dainty as a bird for all her bulk, she sometimes wrote in a Japanese measure, light as a moth's wing, of love's pain. She contrived a grotesque, flitting tragedy from the conceited dreams of a scrimp-shanked philosopher, starving himself dead in the dusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

A state Chamber of Commerce-the New Jersey one-had consumed the annual collation. Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske (retired) rose, began: "In order to demonstrate to you how fragile the basis of our National security is, I am going to show you that if one man (myself) had not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Patriotic Lawbreaker | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

The Freedom Party, led by the notorious ex-First Quartermaster General, General Erich von Ludendorff, was singled out for extinction. This prophecy was probably unduly optimistic, for the conceited General has a noisy following of Junkers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Coming Elections | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

Joseph Caillaux comes of a good family, wealthy and conservative. He was educated at a smart Jesuits' school and later at the École des Sciences Politiques; became an expert in financial affairs. In his earlier 'days it was said of him that he was "well-dressed, dashing, impertinent, conceited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Coming Back? | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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