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...flagpole and people will gape. Put a woman in a public boudoir: will not people gape and gape again? Believing that they will, M. Rich & Bros. Co. (department store) of Atlanta, Ga., engaged Edna Kirby, cinemactress, to live in one of their show windows for a week. She arrived in Atlanta one morning last week, was welcomed at the city hall by Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, then went about her window business-a daily routine of lounging, eating, lounging, dancing with callers, chatting, tidying, lounging. At 9 p. m. she prepared to retire. The curtains of the show window were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Window Living | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...done more to show that the pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT LEVELLER | 1/27/1928 | See Source »

First came the three leading members of the Defense Committee? Gardner Jackson, Aldino Felicani, Mary Donovan. Each kissed the brows of the dead. An uncountable crowd, pushed and prodded into line by police, shuffled stuffily after to scowl, weep or gape. Miss Donovan was arrested when she tried to insert an anti-Judge Thayer placard among the funeral flowers. She was later sentenced to a year in jail, appealed the case. Artist William Gropper of the New Masses was not admitted when he came to make bier portraits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Sacco Aftermath | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, one Tai Leong, 35, was sentenced to ten days in the workhouse. He was charged with disorderly conduct because he caused a crowd near Delancey St. to "gape and surround" him and to laugh uproariously at his grotesque capers. He was laughing, leaping, singing?drunk on tea, which he crammed into his mouth dry. Since tea was not on the contrabrand list, policemen could not confiscate it when he was jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...days. I think every American should see this country before going to Europe as so many do. The scenery is quite as wonderful as abroad, and as for atmosphere, ancient buildings and the rest, most tourists get nothing out of these anyway, and might quite as well gape in their own country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schumann-Heink Finds Happy Home Foundation of National Solidity--Famous Singer Much Opposed to Women Smoking | 3/22/1927 | See Source »

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