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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trips, this supply will be opened and sold to passengers. At Southampton and Cherbourg the chief steward will purchase an assortment of drinks for the westbound trip, plus a supply to replenish the medicinal liquor stock. At the 12-mile-limit the inbound Leviathan will jettison all unconsumed liquor except the medicinal supply under seal which will be held in readiness to refresh passengers on the next eastbound trip. The westbound trip, with a full European stock, will be wetter than the eastbound trip with its limited medicinal supply for sale. Likewise the chief steward will have to exercise rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Wet Leviathan | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...team." Italian editors shrieked to highest heaven that the Austrian team had "played foul," that the flag of Italy had not floated over the stadium, and that the Austrian brass band had played the old Italian royal hymn-obviously a gross insult to Fascisti who never sing anything except their own anthem, "Youth! Youth! Springtime of Beauty!" The umpire of the match, an Englishman, disqualified two Italians for roughness. Broken lanyards prevented the hoisting of the Italian flag. The Austrian bandmaster had no Fascist sheet music, supposed that the Italian royal anthem was the correct thing to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Miserable Austria! | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...infield D. F. Davis '30, K. J. Des Roches '31, T. G. O'Neill '30, and H. L. Huxtable '30 form a combination that, except for a little weakness at the plate, almost comes up to the first team infield. K. W. Crotty '30, G. A. Donaldson '31 and C. P. Atherton ocC form the outfield which Coach Kelleher expects to use in coming games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND UNIVERSITY NINE TO OPEN AGAINST TUFTS 1932 | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

...them can listen to the "canned music" without falling asleep or getting exasperated. A prize of $25 goes to the winner while the loser will collect $10 as a consolation prize. Meals and cigarettes will be furnished the men but they will not be allowed to do any reading except that they may peruse the books which are in the Music Box. These however are Victor Talking Machine Company's book. "What we hear in Music", and the "Book of the Opera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Banner Waved in Holyoke Street to Start Students' Phonograph Listening Marathon--Helen Kane May Officiate | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...John Lateran,* where he will celebrate a mass. The papal motor will contain a sort of back-seat throne, where the Pope alone may sit. Facing the throne will be two chairs where high dignitaries will sit. Thus no one will sit beside the Pope and none, except, of course, the driver, will turn his back upon him when he drives through Roman streets. In such state rides no other monarch, not even Japan's "Son of Heaven" Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: FIRST STEP | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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