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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer is probably to be found in the unique character of college life. The conception of an existence at once free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIMELIGHT BLUES | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

Should a concordat be signed in the indicated sense, Pope Pius XI would be free to emerge from the Vatican and might even tour the U. S., as did King Albert of the Belgians. Once more there might be belligerent Papal troops, and a revival of the Church Militant in its non-Catholic connotation?i.e., a political state ruled by the Pope in an absolute capacity. Presumably, however, the neutrality of the Papal State would be even more studied and scrupulous than Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Concordat? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...deck were wives and husbands and children with hearts gay and free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mail Order Songs | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...know music and translate it freely into bodily movement. Last week with twelve best pupils Dancer Irma arrived in Manhattan to begin there a ten-day memorial festival. Her first program, featuring Impressions of Revolutionary Russia, won highest praise. True to Duncan tradition, the twelve young Russians are free-spirited creatures with no regard for conventional dance designs. Manhattan voted them best of the many Duncan disciples who have exploited the name, their dancing the worthiest tribute to the genius which inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duncan Disciples | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...fine typography, Yeats himself prints books. His press is part of the Cuala Industries run by the Yeats family -one sister manages the embroidery department, another the hand-press, and a brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served in the Free State Senate since its origin. Resigned last month in favor of the easier Riviera, he will be missed for his infrequent but shrewd comment on political matters-he, the poet-creamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Age | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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