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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decorate his garden with pedestals on which stood all day statues improvised out of living serfs, stripped and painted white. In that era, Baron Wrangel's Aunt Jeanne would say, if anyone asked her the time, "Thank God, I have never been compelled to learn that!" and would display her watch to a serf who would announce the hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wrangel on Russia | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...corrections of Thackeray's are also on display one of a manuscript of his lecture on George II, the other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE BOOKS AND PROOFS EXHIBITED AT WIDENER | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin). The hero is building an irrigation dam in Colorado. The villain wants to blow it up. But Rinty, the wonder dog, foxes the dastardly fellow, not only saves the dam by a display of amazing engineering but also ducks all the bullets flying in his direction. In the end Rinty and his bitch (Princess) show in a happy closeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...copy of the first edition of Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" is on display this week in the Widener Memorial room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL ROOM DISPLAYS DICKENS' "PICKWICK PAPERS" | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

...addition to the Dickens works, there are on display, a number of presentation copies of Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling and President Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL ROOM DISPLAYS DICKENS' "PICKWICK PAPERS" | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

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