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...Deadwood, S. Dak., 300 strong men allowed their beards to grow long and bushy, for President Coolidge was coming to town. They wanted him to see Deadwood as it looked in the days of the gold rush, following 1876, when "Wild Bill" Hickock, "Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane" were kicking up dust in its streets. A pageant was staged for President Coolidge, who gladly shook the wrinkled hand of aged "Deadwood Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

From a Cabinet Minister, such a Deadwood Dick account was white hot news. But what of the Presidential announcement of the burning to death of Senora Refugia Obregon Ponce de Leon? That confessed War Minister Amaro, had been a slightly premature announcement. The Senora Ponce de Leon had been expected to travel by the attacked train but, actually, she remained safe at Guadalajara. Disgusted correspondents who had cabled this news as fact throughout the world, resolved to cable no more until eye-witness refugee's arrived from the scene of atrocity. They came on a special train which steamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Atrocity | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...writer really believes that familiarity with so significant an event as the Treaty of Utrecht indicates "a pedantic hankering after specific facts" and that the date of so significant a landmark in the history of English literature as the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany is to be considered deadwood. I feel sure he is in a fair way of becoming the type of college graduate (not limited to Harvard) to which I took objection. I doubt if either a trend of thought or a vision will wholly save...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 10/16/1924 | See Source »

...keenly alive to the present, those events in the past which bear upon the present interest them in proportion to this relation. When Tottel's Miscellany appeared, or who the first Merovingian king was, may be required in a course, but after the examination it is so much deadwood, and as such is speedily forgotten. Four years of plowing through courses, and sifting of facts, however, bring out certain significant relations, and the earnest student begins to see more clearly some of the outstanding problems that face his generation. Already he may have trends of thought which suggest possible solutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT'S CLEVER, BUT IS IT ART?" | 10/14/1924 | See Source »

...Americant art that has been displayed so far-an art as completely and typically American as the first Olympic Games were Greek. We refer to bull-dogging, bronco-busting, roping et al. The Frontier may have passed but the sports of the Frontier survive. Sans six-guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive for all that. Tex Austin is the promoter of the big new rodeo, and he obviously intends to go about it in a showman-like way. He has hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Are You an American? | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

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