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When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

"Seven Sinners" is not as important as Mr. Schildekraut's troubles in the Ghetto, but it is far more readily appreciated. Miss Prevost is given a chance to display her saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/25/1926 | See Source »

Here is a writer, a young new U. S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writer | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

The Offense. An English importation was put on for special matinees with Dennis Neilson-Terry and Mary Glynne in the leads. They are the London players brought over for the exceedingly short lived The Crooked Friday. In the new play they appear to be better performers; it helps them a...

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

That the American university system needs an intellectual forward pass in needs an intellectual forward pass in its educational scrimmages is the mystical pronouncement of L. F. Abbott in the current outlook; he reinforces it with the instance of a Yale man, reared in France, who used French subjunctives as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ACADEMIC FORWARD PASS | 11/12/1925 | See Source »

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