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The epilog was a jolly lampoon of contemporary foibles, political, artistic, social. Two constables debated upon the dangerous possibilities of two paintings, one blank, one hung upside down.* Three party leaders, a Roman (Stanley Baldwin), a Druid (David Lloyd George), and a Scotchman (Ramsay MacDonald), "fitted with clockwork and vocal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Latin in London | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

Birthday. Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst, illegitimate "eugenic baby" of famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst by an anonymous male; at London. Age: 2. Having recently received a picture of Baby Pankhurst, George Bernard Shaw wrote Miss Pankhurst: ''The boy looks a jolly little animal and is still, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

The Russians may not be essentially a jolly race, but somewhere about their bearded persons lurks a kind of laughing madness. If you thought them gloomy, morbid, humorless, you should have read Chekhov or Gogol's Dead Souls. Rather than go to the library for an old book, read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Laughter | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

The program follows: Gloria in Exceisis (from "Missa Papae Marcelli") Semi-Chorus Palestrina The Three Kings (Catalan Nativity Song) Romeu Fum! Fum! Fum! (Old Catalan Jolly Christmas March) Schindler The Wall of Heaven (Motet) Brahms

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMALLMAN A CAPPELLA CHOIR TO SING TONIGHT | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

Last week in Manhattan, a jolly little round-faced man walked into the lobby of a small, sooty-red downtown office building, No. 13 Astor Place, and told the elevator boy that he wanted to get off at the tenth floor. Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mail Order President | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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