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...fellows is more agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars of logic backwards, reaching its points with convulsing speed and accuracy. It convinces you that Funnyman Wodehouse must be the world's most amusing conversationalist or its sourest nervous wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Tory Tension | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...temporary appointment" renewable indefinitely every six months. Because M. Caillaux is generally thought in France to have cut his visit much too short for successful negotiation with Secretary Mellon, it is widely rumored that Senator Bérenger comes as a sort of "permanent diplomatic conversationalist" to keep the French debt negotiations amicably simmering until they can be definitely pinned down to a fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ambassador | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...appears that England has an intellectual counterpart of Apostle Macfadden in Capt. Anthony M. Ludovici. A lecturer and conversationalist, one-time secretary to the late Sculptor Auguste Rodin, married, 43, Captain Ludovici is ostensibly an opponent of British Feminism,* but his book? dwells upon the physiological aspects of the argument with all the insistence and most of the exaggeration of a typical Macfadden editorial in breastfeeding, pride in body and "the happy congress of man and wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex War | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...values. It is sufficiently modernistic to tickle the ear with tricky surprises, cleverly produced as from a convenient bag, without being discordant enough to baffle or antagonize those of conventional tastes. Personally, following (as always) the latest musical fashion, Taylor wears his hair short, dresses well, is an animated conversationalist. Twenty years ago, no one would have taken him for a real musician. Times have changed in St. Cecilia's realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Magazine | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...King of Portugal, who abdicated in 1910: "A despatch from Paris stated that I 'hold my own' there, described me as a welcome guest to highest political circles because of my shrewdness in observing, my constant correspondence with German, Italian, Spanish notables-a semi-aesthete, a brilliant conversationalist, an amusing and instructive host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Oct. 29, 1923 | 10/29/1923 | See Source »

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