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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken 66 hours last October for another jury to fail reach a verdict on the Miller-Daugherty case (TiME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: One Blind, One Coated | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...proceedings of this House now constitute a parliamentary scandal! The House of Commons now passes what bills they please and shovel them upon us too rapidly for serious contemplation or debate. The indignities now heaped upon the House of Lords* would not have been tolerated 30 years ago. I fail to see why they are tolerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...rather violent impressionism of such works like the "Pond in Pinkham Notch", from the grey two light haze of the "Tuilerics Gardens" and the "Place de la Concorde" to the brilliant yellow sunshine of the "Sandbank at Nawshon", there is a variety and freshness in execution which cannot fail to please any vagabond who is wise enough to take the trip into Boston to see the pictures before March 8. Such a one will come away a wiser man, for he will know that there is such a thing as an interesting exhibition of water colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

...speak. In his study he had labored over his topic, watched by the eight-inch crucifix, gilded, that he had mucked out of War debris. Now he rose, hair kinky, face pouched; said: "If Jesus Christ came back to earth He would work through the individual. We modern Protestants fail in some things. Our Roman Catholic brethren in keeping the confessional have pretty nearly wiped us off the stage in one feature of human service. Through the confessional they have built up an amazing service for the treatment of sick souls. A good priest, through the confessional, can develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessional | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

More words, however, fail utterly to convey any adequate impression of the music. The vagabond must go to hear it for himself. And certainly, with Glee Club concerts to judge from, he will not be disappointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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