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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report, a map and a weather chart were used in picking his home, and the inhabitants of this most average of cities than selected their average citizen. One wonders what convulsions seized the place how lar the average men departed from their normaley, dressing themselves and their households in Indian costumes or resigning from all their lodges in order to avoid being singled out for national, and unaverage ame, and how one of their number was unkindly taken unawares...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RANK LIST-GROUP FIVE | 10/20/1927 | See Source »

...spared to reproduce the last freckle, pock, line, whisker; the exact crook of nose, areas of baldness, hair part, ear convulsions, etc., for the Presidential medals constitute the official record of what each President looked like while in office. Until about ten years ago, the medals were called "Indian peace medals," hundreds of them being distributed to chieftains at the beginning of every administration. Presidential medals can be obtained by anyone from the Treasury Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...mysterious mischievous animals, of great mountains, of wide unfamiliar lakes in which shone, with the regular rhythm of a clock, the black night sky or, in the daytime, the reflection of green hills. These were photographs which he had made when on an expedition, consisting of himself and one Indian guide, 1,250 miles into the wilderness of Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...been directed by Edward Hungerford, journalist, magazine writer. The drum major of the centenary band was one F. E. Czarnowsky, who for 31 years was drum major of the 5th regiment Maryland National Guard, which he joined as drummer-boy in 1868. Chief Two Guns White Calf, an Indian whose avaricious profile appears on all U. S. five-cent pieces, was brought to the fair with some of his tribesmen in a special historic coach. One Gladys Miller, a member of the treasury department of the B. & O., who acquired, in a recent beauty contest, the cognomen, "Miss Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Locomotive Ball | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...story she can bring a wealth of unchurchly anecdotes because, trekking around his desert diocese on his cream-colored mule, Bishop Latour was respectfully studious of its folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave, the Bishop honored the inscrutable and did not ask if the vibrant mystery of the place was, besides a buried river, some ceremonial monster, an infant-devouring serpent as legend said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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