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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...When I come into a meeting sometimes I feel just like a sponge, dripping with honey and milk. I just give everything I've got. I'm weak when I come out. But I go and pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: All Charged Up | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...first I was treated as a captive and a slave.] One day a young French officer-he was not more than 22-was captured. . . . He was buried alive up to the neck. The women brought a great bowl of thick brown honey and poured it over his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caid El-Hadj | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...which a month ago had been as dead as a pig in a stockyard, commanded the immediate attention of the Senate?with an even chance of passing by a narrow margin. Thus with two neat strokes of strategy, the farmers were in sight of that land of milk and honey which the government had for five years told them was never-never land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Relief? | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...bees are in the tree, the coon is in his shelter, all's right with the "South Lot."* The President announced last week that he and Mrs. Coolidge are very fond of their wild swarm of bees. However, the President does not eat honey because it once made him sick when he was a little boy. As for the raccoon, which was sent to the President from Nitta Yuma, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 6), it has won its way into the Presidential affection and will not be sent to the zoo. An eternal coonship has been founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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