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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husbandman who planted a vineyard, drank of the wine, and was drunken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Stockholm King Gustaf of Sweden gave a court dinner in honor of his niece* and Crown Prince Leopold, who had hastened thither last week. Raising high his glass, King Gustaf proposed and drank to the engagement a potent Swedish toast,† crying "Skal!" ("your health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Royal Engagement | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...After the Flood: And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard; And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent- GENESIS 9: 20-21. He was somewhat over 600 years old then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: German Renaissance | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...stature. He then tried teaching school, found it dull; managed a baseball team, found it unremunerative; worked as clerk in the Secretary of State's office in Springfield (the only political office he has ever held). He had tasted political atmosphere and liked it. In Chicago he drank deeper under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senatorial Campaigns | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Many people honestly believe that one Ulysses Simpson Grant was general of the Federal forces in the Civil War; that he said, "I purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"; that he drank plenty of hard liquor; that he was later President of the U. S. They are wrong. No such person ever did any of these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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