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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truly the prize occupation is that of the Monkey Deporter, who is not, as might be supposed, a collector for Ring-ling or the Bronx, but is more like an animated scarecrow. In Northern India, there is a small brown monkey which is a pest to fruit cultivators, but is protected none-the-less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRICKS OF THE TRADES | 5/2/1923 | See Source »

...Premier recovered in so far as he was able to sit up and toy with half a grape fruit. The paralysis has entirely left his throat, leaving his power of speech free. His words were: " So this is Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pot Pourri de Lenin | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...Louise Seeger, mother of Alan Seeger, the poet, who was killed in the war: "I arrived in America from France where my husband and I have been engaged since the war, planting fruit trees and shade trees for the peasants in memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...persuasive statement. The object of a college education is culture. "Culture is not the finished product, much less the meretricious trappings of an inferior article serving to deceive the observer. Culture is fertilization. . . . True education must make fertile the intellectual and moral ground so that it can bear fruit in the proper season. To be more concrete, the real education which a college can give is that which enables the alumnus to judge for himself with reasonable expectation of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Some Defects | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet, his wife, "a fair thick being"; Mama Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crumbs* | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

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