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Between elections the windy City seems to amuse itself with choruses and saccharine songs, in the approved fashion of soft-headed, hard fisted story book heroes. And those venturesome native sons who dare to return home for their Easter oggs will find a pleasant and only slightly faded array of...

Author: By T. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

The Chilean ambassador to the United States cannot seem to fall in with the traditions of the North American film at all. He rather objects, for instance, to the idea that all children from south of the Rio Grande grow up to be craven desperadoes to be slaughtered or knocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAY IT ISN'T TRUE | 4/5/1927 | See Source »

French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Fine Funeral | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

This is not the first time that Louisville has cried "mad dog." Last autumn, an ecstatic writer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: "Once Kentucky had charm and individuality. Now it is hard to distinguish it from Kansas. The hills are full of antievolutionists, prohibitionists and reformers, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabies | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Then in the reign of Robert II, the 14th lineal hair of Oldman, gold was discovered in the Mosquito realm. Santos Zelaya, the heavy-fisted dictator of Nicaragua, promptly led an invading army into the Indian territory. Thus perished in 1894, after a short, sharp struggle, the sovereignty of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spinden Tells Romantic History of Guatemala Mosquito Indians | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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