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...Bellefonte hospital they took care of Lieutenant Bettis, and then a passenger plane, equipped with an invalid hammock, rushed him to Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. Physicians marveled at his stamina, pronounced him convalescent despite 43 hours of pain and exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On Bald Eagle Ridge | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...privacy. Early in the morning he and Mrs. Coolidge slipped downstairs and tacked up bed sheets in such a way as to completely screen the piazza. Later in the day, when the conference took place, the Chief Executive was able to loll in the Gloucester hammock, shielded by the sheets from the curious and the sun. Before Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot quitted their sturdy porch chairs the irreducible terms to be granted Belgium had been fixed, the all-important interest rate of the Belgian moratorium was settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

Romance is dead, long live Romance! "Drake, he's in his hammock"; Frobisher likewise; only the ghost of Captain Kidd is still burying treasure, only a phantom Long John Silver is still digging it up. Writers of the present day can submerge themselves in the atmosphere of other times or more primitive climes and so produce a Sea-Hawk or a Lord Jim. But among the furnaces, the black smoke, and the steel girders of modern America, "where are the snows of yesteryear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" | 12/15/1923 | See Source »

...loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik-a perfect specimen of what used to be called a hammock book. HOMELAND-Margaret Hill McCarter-Harper ($2.00). Jack Lorton, before he went to France, thought Leslie Jannison was going to be his own little Dream-Girl-yes, that was the way he talked. But when he came back he found her practical, efficient, modern, unsympathetic. Enter a beautiful blonde home-wrecker, Mrs. Sidol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...time belle of the factory district. She spent her time in doing her best to imitate in dress, manners and looks the fashionable ladies she read about in the society columns. She even managed to build an imitation pergola in the back yard and swung there, in a Gloucester hammock, hoping, for a duke. She had an insatiable instinct for what people with private incomes like to call "nice things." When Stephen came along, he checked completely with all her aspirations. They fell in love and were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stella Dallas* | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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