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...born on Midsummer's Day, when legend held that Lordly Ones walked the earth to steal earth-children, leave faery changelings in their stead. A strange child from the first???she had golden hair, while all the Shawns were dark?she grows stranger year by year. Shy as a mouse, she yet seems to know what people are thinking of, makes her mother feel a little weird. But for Linda her home, the farm fields and woods are a simple heaven. Only slowly do personal loves come to people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Midsummer's Child | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...FEET FIRST???Another example of Harold Lloyd's best comedy, with some good high altitude prattfalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Senate last week gave President Hoover the first???and probably the last ?Dry legislation recommended by his National Law Enforcement Commission when it passed the House bill to transfer Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. After July 1, field agents numbering 2,263 and 153 Washington clerks will find themselves working under Attorney General Mitchell, instead of Secretary Mellon, as Enforcer-in-Chief (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Transfer | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...First???That Governor Long frequently appears in New Orleans in public resorts and engages in drunken debauches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Louisiana's Long | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...First???That the State cede to the Holy See a plot of territory west of the Vatican, including a section of the Rome-Viterbo Railway and the old St. Peter's Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Concordat? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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