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...before it became illegal to remember. Now "professional" drinkers have become as fanatical as Drys. "Until we learn how to drink at home with considerably more technical skill and social grace than we now possess, we will need the saloon as much as ever." Says Seldes: 100,000 speakeasies flourish in the U. S., not to satisfy the national taste for liquor but "our pride and a childish illusion of wickedness, a 'tawdry romanticism." No friend to Prohibition, Moderate Drinker Seldes believes in freedom to drink when you want to, to refuse a drink when you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prohibition in Prosody & Prose | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Also opened with the terminal will be the first Harvey restaurant east of Chicago. Harvey, Inc., companion concern to the Fred Harvey restaurants and hotels that flourish mightily throughout the West, will be represented further in the terminal by a candy shop, men's shop, women's shop, toy shop, lunch room, tea rooms, barber shop, book store, mammoth drug store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rail Week | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Whether or not Dr. Einstein has that accomplished as a laboratory feat, he accompanied his introduction of Solid Space with a rhetorical flourish which will doubtless confuse students for years to come. Meaning merely that Space had at last come into its own as the ultimate reality, he exclaimed: "Space is now having its revenge, so to speak, and is eating up Matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solid Space? | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

Houses must flourish Masters must don them...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...With a flourish the Chambrun Galleries invited the New York art world last week to a show proudly titled "Les Trente, a representative showing of the work of 30 modern French painters." The modern French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Les Trente | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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