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...tomorrow's game. Although neither of the coaches has announced a definite starting lineup, it is announced that the teams will face each other as they have started in their last major contests. In this case the starting order will be as follows: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Dorn r.f. l.g. Heap Leekley l.f. r.g. Ellis Green c. c. Hein Malick r.g. f. Vossler Barbee l.g. r.f. Picken

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET IS TO FACE GREEN FIVE TOMORROW | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...have no doubt but that items of news in the article are substantially correct, but your reference to "Jellybeans" is all wrong, and especially your explanation in the note. You define a jellybean as a heap this "Southern small opprobrium town upon the loafer." Why heap this opprobrium upon the South? We are as loyal to your publication as any portion of the country. Then again, why refer to a jellybean as a loafer? A jellybean is not necessarily a loafer, although he may be one. A jellybean is just another name for a cookie-pusher. Members of this species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1927 | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort to herself" this sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Undaunted by the bared fangs of "huskies" a la Jack London, the glaring orbs of crouching timber wolves, the "heap big Injun" chiefs whittling with wicked knives before gewgawed teepees in full war regalia, a daring reporter penetrated the aboriginal forest of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the Sportsman's--Show in Mechanics Hall Guided by Bassaqua the squaw woman, he was on the trail of Thomas Edmonds Wilson, dean of Canadian guides, in whose honor a monument has been erected at Takakka Falls, Alberta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Make Best Guides in the Yoho Says Dean of Kicking Horse Trail--Sitting Bull Grandstand Coach, He Opines | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...Fascismo throws the noxious theories of so-called Liberalism upon the rubbish heap. . . . Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quietly turn around to step once more, over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Putrid Goddess | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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