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Among aristocratic women, the game is particularly popular, a result not out of harmony with the comment of Owen Wiset's Virginian that Queen Elizabeth would have made a good poker player. Any woman who could fool a Spanish king certainly would not lose money to a cowboy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONDON BRIDGE | 2/23/1926 | See Source »

...famed founder (1873) of the publishing firm which bears his name, writer of various books dealing with the cosmos and of Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor; at Manhattan, following an attack of bronchitis. On his 80th birthday, Mr. Holt said: "Any young man who drinks whisky is a fool, and any old man who doesn't is another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 22, 1926 | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

Kipling saw a picture, painted by Burne-Jones and shocked the world of women's colleges by writing the "Vanipire". And then Theda Bara played it in the movies and shocked the rest of the world by saying, "Kiss me, my fool" to one of the funniest looking specimens ever decorated with the early editions of Form Fit Sartorial subtleties. But Kipling never reached the heights in that verse which he attained in "The Ladies". I fancy he never reached such heights anywhere else, and I've read all the verse he ever wrote, read it and re-read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/18/1926 | See Source »

Died. James B. Newsome, 76,* oldest Pullman porter; in Chicago. He had traveled over 6,000,000 miles in Pullman cars, since 1870, without ever having been complained against. His motto was, "Never argue with a fool, humor him." Buffalo Bill once gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 15, 1926 | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...When fool counsels fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fools | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

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