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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current taste in refined wantonness, when History's closet affords the skeletons of many such- authentic shades already advertised, even to an ill-schooled generation. She (internal evidence fixes the gender) has but to draw about the rummaged bones their traditional glamour, judiciously intensified and sympathetically explained. So here we have a florid Woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn, who assures the finicky that she departs from historic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woman's Byron | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...food; in 1924 only 48%. Between 1873 and 1922 pasturage land showed a decrease of 1 in every 100 acres, whereas Germany showed an increase of 5, Belgium 16, The Netherlands 12, Denmark 15, France an unspecified gain. He advocated "a ruthless survey without fear or favor, affection or ill will, of the state of our agricultural land and the use to which it is being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...shoved the missive into his pocket. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read : MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE. McAuliffe, who did not need, as a matter of fact, the efforts of his unsportsmanlike supporters to rattle his opponent, added one more to his lead, took the match on the 13th green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Public Links | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Free-for-all, 1¼ mile: Sir Roche; time, 2 min. 35 2/5 sec.; at Aurora, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New World's Records: Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...scout from Pontiac, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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