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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen-Empress and her advisers have apparently thought it unwise to overrule President Cosgrave openly. They were faced with a nasty dilemma when occasion arose for the Crown Council to accredit Mr. Michael MacWhite as Irish Free State Minister to the U.S. (TIME, March 25). But they found a weasel way out. Since the Irish were determined to honor none but Royal signatures, the necessary papers were signed by the Duke of York, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales only...
...Manhattan, a patrolman found one John Sawyer, 65, lying face down upon the floor of his basement apartment, dead from a fall or foul play; around the corpse, unblinking, motionless, sat six cats...
Henry Varnum Poor is a snub-nosed husky, dark from the sun. He was born in Kansas in 1888, attended Stanford University, studied painting at the Slade School and with Walter Sickert in London, and at the Julian Academy in Paris. After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles...
...done, one William W. Cardow, Waterbury, Conn., motor mechanic, had an autopsy performed on his wife a few hours after her death last week. Dr. Frederic Flinn, Columbia University radium poisoning specialist, was summoned by telegraph and he, with a Waterbury pathologist and dentist, took the body apart. They found that its jawbones were decayed, also parts of the skull, a bone in the right thigh, and four teeth. The heart and lungs were sound, but other internal organs yellow with...
They rounded up at Berlin where Fran collected another lover, and this one she proposed to marry. Sam, bewildered, obligingly "deserted" to Paris where he found an honest harlot; to Italy where he found the improbable Edith. Edith thought she could be happy with him in Zenith, though "America terrifies me. I feel insecure there. I feel everybody watching me, and criticizing me unless I'm buzzing about Doing Something Important. And there's no privacy...