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In Manhattan, in Chicago, at Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, Quebec?similar rejoicing. Everywhere raucous youth snapped up "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" (words and music by one Jules Buffano; sponsor, an obscure San Francisco firm). Swiftly crabbed age constructed buggies and horses out of beaverboard, harness out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular Song | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

"The Advocate in this issue gives up the minatory and monitory capacity which, like the Greek future tense, it sometimes assumes, and with no thought to the college turns itself to literary matters. This reversion was not planned by the Advocate, nor wholly expected by it: for the late rebellious...

Author: By Theodore Morrison, | Title: ADVOCATE DROPS SCHOOL FOR LITERARY MATTERS | 5/29/1924 | See Source »

Prizes of $100 each were also distributed to the Alliance Players of Jersey City, with Caleb Stone's Death Watch, an ironic comedy of the death chamber by Martin Flavin, and to the Gardens Players of Forest Hills, with Crabbed Youth and Age, by Lennox Robinson.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Texas Players | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, Philip Snowden, Socialist, most unpopular member of the Cabinet. Is foremost proponent of Capital Levy and has a "crabbed, gloomy nature."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Advent of Laborism | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

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