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...flaring headlines of certain extras implied last Friday. Another tempest in a teapot, the fourth or fifth within a fortnight! With all these absurdities whose only claim to screaming importance comes from their association with the name of Harvard, Cambridge is becoming as noisy as red ink extras and frantic newsboys can make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "READ ALL ABOUT IT!" | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...temporal power. The illumination was done not with electricity but with thousands of tallow torches and candles, many of which were encased in saucer-shaped lanterns, giving the impression of a blazing building. It took 300 men a fortnight to prepare the pyro display. Many thousands of frantic people cheered in polyglot tongue: "Long live the Pope!" "Vivet la Sainte Thérèse!" "Viva la Chiesa Romana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: La Petite Fleur | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

With nothing to say, he's frantic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

...easily guess at Mr. Dawes' long rage in the cab, but the sequel is if possible--more startling. Imagine, then, the taxi pulling up at the Capitol steps with a final burst of speed. Mr. Dawes jumps out and rushes up that long marble flight of steps in a frantic attempt to save the honor of his country. A voice halls him from below: "Hey, come back here, you owe me sixty-five cents!" Sheridan had his foam-flecked charger. Paul Revere his prancing make but for over and ever Dawes will be known by his Yellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT HAPPENED TO DAWES? | 3/14/1925 | See Source »

...foreigners, the battle begun between Trotzky and Zinoviev is an episode in the great epic of the greatest revolution humanity has ever known. For us, the contest is nothing more than a frantic race in which each man, Trotzky and Zinoviev, seeks to arrive at the domination of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Zinoviev | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

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