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Authoress Young wrote in William a delightful and astute account of modern family life. Her present attempt is less successful, the story thin in spite of engaging characters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vicar, 20th Century | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

The sale of this program in conjunction with a Boston evening newspaper may or may not be a clue to the identity of its editors, who, like their printers, have not seen fit to acknowledge responsibility in the usual manner. There is something delightful about the underselling of an official...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRAMS, TOO | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Under the microscope a drop of pond scum can give hours of delightful study. What feels between the fingers like slime is, microscopically, an open lake crowded with queer vegetable and animal life.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnified Pond Scum | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Two days later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lazy Giants | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Long before the first golden-rod grows bright in far away fields, the yellow lights of the new season are raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Season | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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