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...counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator Reed followed this fresh and fragrant spoor to extraordinary revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Subdivision of Government | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...seems a pity that this book, with a subject so rich, and fragrant, po- tentially as full of life and color as the Mississippi in the old days, should be dull. For a gambler's anecdotes to be flat it is unforgiveable. Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Romance in Cocked Hats and Sbirt Sleeves | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...substitute for the "monkey meat" ("canned willie," corn beef), welcome substitute for the "frigo" (frozen beef), welcome substitute for the sloppy, though nourishing slumgullion ' of the ration. This bacon was not so neatly packed, so elegantly handled as was the civilian product yet it was clean, wholesome, nourishing. Fragrant, crisp, dripping grease, on thick white bread and with a canteen cup full of hot coffee-"Bring on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Swifts | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Paco, traditional scion of a wealthy family in Granada, seduces Salud, a black-eyed gypsy girl, deserts her to marry the more suitable Carmela. Salud would have him back, goes to Carmela's house on the evening of the wedding festivities, sings the warm, fragrant gypsy melody that won him first, dies of grief when he repulses her. On such an old, old story, unfattened by dramatic detail, the young De Falla wrote his opera, years before he was capable of El Amor Brujo or El Retablo de Maesa Pedro,** before he had any real understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: K. P. E. Bach | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...skin which is doubly taxed by society and professional life and which must be kept clear, fresh and free from weariness and that horrid pasty look, Pond's Two Creams are perfect, so fragrant and pleasant of texture, so sure in fulfillment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testimonial | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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