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...flare-up of the last decade in public enthusiasm over football may not last indefinitely, or it may come to seem a wise course to step aside from the annual excitement of it and put the game on an entirely different footing. Financial independence is the first step toward such a conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Weekly Carries Plan to Limit Football Tickets | 10/11/1930 | See Source »

...Gabrielle Chanel-Even hemlines, waist at the hips. Sport skirts just cover the knee. Evening skirts flare from the hip or the knee, have ruffled backs. (Again the bustle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fall Opening | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...Epsom Downs. Silver Flare delayed them at the start, wheeling and breaking, but all at once the 17 were in a line and then the line was broken, closing to the rail, with one horse pulling out in front. It was Diolite, the favorite, with Ballyferris after him. When they had made the long run up the hill. Rustom Pasha, the Aga Khan's first-string horse, moved out, passed the tiring Diolite and led the way down toward Tattenham Corner. Then Diolite was close again neck & neck with Rustom Pasha at the turn, with Iliad third as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...much sword-rattling testimony disturbed treaty Senators. The free-&-easy way in which admirals publicly criticized U. S. diplomacy and discussed a possible war with Japan, prompted the New York World to flare up as follows: "It is high time somebody in authority told those admirals where they get off. . . . The spectacle . . . is shocking beyond words." The New York Herald Tribune flayed its rival's "petulant and unpatriotic attacks" upon the Navy and "Captain" Johnson rushed to the admiral's defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: For-Senators-Only | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Police and a squad of Marines battled a mob last week on Hollywood Boulevard. Overhead a battle squadron of airplanes looped and scattered flare bombs. Milling, shouting, jeering, cheering thousands surged along the roped and guarded sidewalk. They came by motor and trolley from miles around, inflamed with the lust to gape. They came to see the famed females of the movies in what is not inaccurately described on nights like this as the flesh. Squired by famed movie males these females dress in their sheerest best to attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell's Angels | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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