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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should U. S. President Calvin Coolidge invite three thugmen to dine with him, the event would be scarcely more shocking than a recent dinner in Tokyo at which the Premier of Japan sat down to eat with three of the "Defiled Ones," members of the despised class called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tradition Shattered | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...born in Winchester, Va., 37 years ago. Adventurous at 12, he took a trip around the world, during which he was forced to eat carrots and monkeys while quarantined in the Philippines. He entered the Navy via Annapolis. His services to aviation include the invention of the bubble sextant (giving flyers an artificial horizon), the perfection of the sun compass and the drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Four Men in a Fog | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...Dacey came but the whiskey was about gone. Let them all go up to the Lihme apartment then, suggested Mr. Healy. Perhaps they could find a bite to eat and settle the matter as became three Irish gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vandals | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...year ago, Gertrude Ederle arrived at Cape Griz Nez, France, began to eat many an egg, many a steak. Later, as everyone knows, she swam the English Channel while the band on her tugboat played Barney Google...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Poor Ederle | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Maltreated Dog | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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