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...assassin fired through a house door, killed Dora Hand by mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Famed is England's DORA (Defence of the Realm Act), compendium of War-time restrictions, still unrepealed. Frequently flayed was Dora, and it must certainly be admitted that she has produced many children who are quite literally robots. For when, last week, Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corp.-better known as Cameo-arranged for wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dumb Dora's Child Cameo | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...demands of modernity. The admirers of beauty unadorned may lament, but if the virtue of curiosity was to be retained in the human male, something had to be done. Tights and all, "The Black Crook" is dancing once more into public favor, and already the Flora Dora sextet is brushing the moth balls out of those glorious skirts that swept them into the laps of their millionaires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHISTICATION DONS TIGHTS | 3/13/1929 | See Source »

...Beaconsfield Club in Montreal last week Virginia Wilson of Chicago, defeated Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, 5 up and 4 to play for the Canadian women's golf championship. Dora Virtue, of Montreal, was triumphant over Edith Quier, of Reading. Pa., in the second round. The Quier-Virtue score was 2 up, i to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Last fortnight first prize ($5,000) went to one James E. Noble Jr. of Sanitorium, Miss., for his lofty "Certified by Centuries of Service." Tersely quieting the fears of those who worry about deforestation, the slogan, "Wood, Use It-Nature Renews It," won second prize ($2,000) for Mrs. Dora Davis Farrington of Interlaken, N. J. Less clever, by one word, a Mrs. Maud Burt of Marshalltown, Iowa, thought of "Use It-Nature Renews It," got third prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wood | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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