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...times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best shot: Sonny Boy in the clothes-hamper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...University of Michigan, and, overtopping them all in generosity, that of eleven million dollars to Harvard University to establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results. It is true that a donor's foresight is never quite equal to contemporary professional judgment in achieving a desired project, and may sometimes unduly limit such an achievement. Whatever may be the result of this definitely stipulated gift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE INSTITUTE | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that no catnip or other poison can hamper Champ Jack Dillon in the performance of his art. The last scene shows the fight itself. Dempsey throws his hands around more wildly than he does in an off-stage ring but there are moments when he does not pull his punches. After his quiet, embarrassed performance in drawing-room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

There exist other foreign monopolies of natural products which hamper where they do not constrain U. S. business?British rubber, French-German potash, Chilean nitrate and iodine, Japanese camphor, Brazilian coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dutch Monopoly | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Saloon League has engaged in a number of shady political deals which have discredited it." Mr. Colvin, who was in Chicago arranging for the Prohibition Party's annual convention there this week, said that the Prohibition plan this year would be to back a Dry Democrat who might hamper Smith's progress in one or more States in the Solid South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: It's An Issue? | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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