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...above all Harvard men seem to be judges of beauty. Though they devour College Humor, and know Captain Billy by heart, with the magazines of pictures their interest is keenest. At one store, at lest, the American Art Student and Art and life sell as fast as the Saturday Evening Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What does the Harvard Man Read? Saturday Evening Post, Square Dealers Say--Humorous Magazines Sell Fast | 3/28/1925 | See Source »

Lust is a serpent twining with subtle coil a man and a woman whom fires devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Deadly Sins | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...settle down again. Every few hours came compulsory sprints, for points. And bored spectators would sometimes get the announcer's ear, offer $20, $100, to the winner of a special sprint. Megaphoned to, the riders would tense, dart away, tear over the line, then drop into the slower, mile-devour- ing pace while the winner's partner collected the prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grind | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...apparent disregard of Americans for Asiatic foreign affairs in general, and Japanese problems specifically, is most astounding," he declared. "They seem to devour the speeches and troubles of Europe with great avidity, but how often does one see the speech of a Japanese statesman or a study of current Japanese internal conditions printed in an American newspaper? You cannot deny that we Japanese are considered of very little news value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALLS U. S. BLIND TO AFFAIRS OF ORIENT | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...ships are being towed to the Potomac, off Tidewater Virginia. When practical, they will be drawn up on shore; when not, they will be left afloat. Oil, $25,000 worth, will drench their frames. And the flames, leaping and licking, will devour their oaken bodies in the last great lustration of a war gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Wood and Flames | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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