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...last week for a two-seater De Havilland Gypsy Moth plane with dual controls. Slow and safe, the ship has a cruising speed of but 90 m. p. h., can land on much smaller fields than the Royal Air Force still planes used by heretofore Flying P.' used ie by H. R. Minister H. James and Ramsay MacDonald. On his first flight in the Moth last week, dutiful Scion Wales was piloted to Sandringham to visit his parents, was deposited smartly on their lawn. Later, by handling one of the ship's dual controls, he will learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Quite as gruesome a joke was nearly played on the poet himself?at his birth ie was tossed aside as dead, till the midwife exclaimed to the surgeon: "Dead! Stop a minute: he's alive enough, sure!" Live enough to play the infant Hercules, with the difference that the large snake found one day in his cradle was curled up on the child's chest, comfortably asleep like himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alive Enough | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...inevitability and consequent compulsion. How blind are they, therefore who would link a robot with the masterful beau geste which fills an entire blue book for the simple run of the thing. Only humanity in its most sparkling moments could produce so shining an example of the spirit "pour ie sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EX MACHINA | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

Warmakers Welcome. Although in course of years the Quaker has come to represent t'ie very personification of the pacifist spirit, the circular explains that militarists are not excluded from membership in the society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quaker Revival | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Cradle Song. This play, translated from the Spanish of Gregorio and Ma ie Martinez Sierra by John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world's dancing sunbeams for the grey routine of a Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatrack, Revelry | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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