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Fifty-nine such Pink Pearls were recently threaded by Black, Starr & Frost (Manhattan) into one exquisite necklace, delicately blended, delicately matched. Amateur and professional connoisseurs last week acclaimed it the most magnificent in existence; exhausted superlatives; declared $685,000 a reasonable price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Superlatives Exhausted | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Early Seventeenth Century. Came the Great Frost: the new King celebrated his coronation with an ice carnival on the frozen Thames, and there Orlando fell passionately in love with a Muscovite Princess. His verse likened her to a pineapple, an emerald, a fox in the snow; and for weeks their bliss was the gossip of the icebound court. Then she jilted him, and he went into a trance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breeches to Crinolines | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...imposing list of names lines the table of contents. Included are Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Lewis Mumford, Babette Deutsch, John Gould Fletcher, Mark van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Waldo Frank and many others...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: Cargoes | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Schooled and approved by Robert Frost, a new poet interprets New England hills and fields and gaunt good folk. Spring plowing he has watched as the turning over of old earth that the sun might shine on new surfaces. Such things he wants to share with "those who love new sods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Verse | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Died. M. Villers, head gardener at the Chateau de Bonapart, Paris, a suicide, because frost had killed off all his begonias, each & every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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