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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attorneys arguing for the Czechoslovak Republic brushed aside any distinction between "royal" and "regnant." Was a case involving $125,000,000 to be decided by the splitting of a hair? Besides everyone knows that "Papa Friedrich's" son, the Archduke Albrecht (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926), is one of several pretenders to the vacant Throne of Hungary. How preposterous, then, is any claim that the Archducal estates should not have been confiscated...
Henrik Ibsen's .Hedda Gabler is, as her many admirers know, "about twenty-nine . . . a woman of breeding and distinction. Her complexion is pale and opaque-her eyes, steel gray, express a cold unruffled repose. Her hair is an agreeable medium brown, not particularly abundant. She is dressed tastefully in a somewhat loose-fitting morning gown...
...reorganization of the government, correspondents were regaled with hair-raising disclosures of former graft, plus assurances that wholesale padding of ministerial payrolls has ceased. There are said to have been some 500 government employes in the capital who never had a desk or a chair, and appeared at their offices only on payday. This state of affairs was said to have existed for decades, and through the prime ministry of Monsignor Anton Koroshetz (TIME, Jan. 14), who is now Minister of Transports and Railways...
Christian white citizens of Seattle, who tut-tutted when their Miss Nancy Ann Miller mated with an Indian potentate (TIME, March 12), were not a little stirred last week when she gave birth to a girl-child of swarthy skin, jet black hair and beady brown eyes. Since the event was somewhat premature, the babe's father, Sir Tokuji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, was suddenly obliged to break off playing baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera, whence he rushed to his wife's bedside at St. Germain, near Paris, arriving just in time. Though naturally disappointed that...
...Follette, no noble Roman ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored the temper of the man. He was compact, robust, wiry, alive with energy. His head was squarely, ruggedly shaped, with abundant hair swooping up in a reckless, leonine pompadour. He dressed with what Sculptor Davidson called "careless fastidiousness." Indicative of inward sensitiveness, his fingers were long and slender; his feet, always in glossy shoes, were unusually small...