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Roaring like a fire demon, the car devoured 250 miles almost without slackening. From Rome it fled across Umbria and Tuscany into the hills of Forli. A quirk of the thumb and Mussolini cut the ignition. An easy swing of the wheel and he coasted silently up the drive of a country villa at Carpena. Dazed, the Premier's chauffeur looked about him, rubbed caked dust from smarting eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Donna Rachele | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...piano by Isa Kremer Eili, Eili Arranged by Jacchia Minuet Bolzoni Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Songs with piano by Isa Kremer Suite from "Shulamith" Goldfaden a. March to Jerusalem b. The Blessing c. Raisins and Almonds d. Finale: In Beth Hamikdosh Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni Ballet from "The Demon" Rubinetein

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isa Kremer at Pops Tonight | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Everyone knows some vocal dummy who persists in giving damaging evidence to his partner and likewise the demon bidder who whispers optional auctions before finally declaring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ETHICS OF AUCTION | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...certain southern Senator," formerly a fierce denouncer of Wall Street and the interests and until recently only moderately well-to-do, who during last summer made some $200,000 in real estate and whose philippics have now grown milder because he no longer regards all wealth as an evil demon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSCLE SHOALS: Something Doing | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...headed continuity in the ordering of the book, and also a flippant, strained use of fuzzy words. The historian sees his people motivated by eccentric ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that is the reason that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary Stuart | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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