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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk?that will be up to the new Chairman." As for illness: "I am feeling fine. I've been sick only twice?once in 1885 and once in 1915. Since ten I haven't missed a meal. Every year two or three doctors examine me and find nothing wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...said, 'Be not weary of well doing.' He was in despair: 'We have all emptied our pockets,' he fretted. 'Go through your pockets again,' I said very kindly, 'and I am sure you can find enough to cover what remains between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden Tattles | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...down Britain the Snowden victory seemed such good politics, last week, that dopesters freely declared the Laborites could win another 50 seats in Parliament if they could find a plausible pretext to hold a general election this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden Tattles | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Sophomore (Pathé). Here is one of those cinema colleges without buildings or curriculum, but this time composed strangely of youths who do not smoke or drink and who expel a fraternity brother as soon as they find a girl in his room. One Eddie Quillan uses trite situations for purposes of comedy. Between arid stretches, two sequences are fairly funny-the college play, when he has to let his worst enemy make love to him, and the football game which he wins by tackling a teammate who is running the wrong way. Sally O'Neil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...names and dialect while the style has more than an air of Russian futility. This compilation contains Author Keene's idea of his best stories to date. Typical is "The Latch-Key," a story wherein a girl returns to her apartment on the eve of her marriage to find a discarded lover's compromising revenge: suicide in her supposedly virginal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Garlic Creek | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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