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Which was cause and which effect???the bump into the hill, the explosion, the fracture of the hull? A loss of a rudder? These questions remained unanswerable last week. Incendiary smoking by one of the party seemed, however, out of the question. Discovery of a control fin some distance away from the wreck in the woods seemed to point to what precipitated the final plunge. British and French flying experts hastened to the scene, to answer the multitude of whys, then asked Dr. Eckener to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patched Shoe | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...effective wiles employed by theatrical ladies is the bogus pregnancy. The ingenue of It's A Wise Child (TIME, Aug. 19) uses it to rid herself of a repulsive fiance. The heroine of Many A Slip adopts it, upon the advice of her mother, to provoke just the opposite effect???a proposal of marriage from a cynical and recalcitrant swain. Once she gets him, she learns that babies do not always come with husbands and is highly embarrassed by the arrival of toy trains, mechanical bunnies, other anticipatory gewgaws. And when her husband learns the truth he makes it very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

Thus the scene, and upon it Marshal Pilsudski must make his inevitably melodramatic appearance with good effect??? not the reverse. During the afternoon and most of the evening JJ. Briand coached and perhaps coaxed the Marshal. Next morning the impromptu melodrama was played out at a secret session of the League Council. But details soon leaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Briand's Miracle | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...true architect and someone else, and impressing upon architects that theirs is an Art as well as a technic, were the convention keystones. To stress the Art of building, the Institute has enrolled representatives of arts with which the architect must ally his work to obtain unity of effect???sculpture, mural painting, landscape-architecture, etc. (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architects | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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