Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memory a bird-sanctuary decorated by Sculptor Jacob Epstein, situated in Hyde Park. Sculptor Epstein's panel represented Rima, arms outstretched, succoring two birds of prey. But to the consternation of the bird-lovers and the embarrassment of then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who unveiled the statue (TIME, June 1, 1925), Epstein's Rima was not the melodious and polychromatic creature of Novelist Hudson's fancy, but a new, strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic countenance roused a deafening discussion. She was called grotesque, horrible. The protests...
...June Moon. Ring W. Lardner and George S. Kaufman are the authors of this satire on the noisiest of all "rackets," music publishing. It is as funny as a fusion of such wits would lead one to expect. Mr. Lardner has even gone so far as to write several crack-brained chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist...
...Last week the New Yorker, Manhattan weekly smartchart, told how a gentleman aboard the Mauretania en route for Manhattan last June, spent the better part of four afternoons on a sequestered deck-bench reading Authoress Delmar's Loose Ladies. The reader was John Pierpont Morgan...
...June Week Not for Plebes
Those five months go more rapidly than would seem. The Plebe has new things to do and learn, and by this time he has his individual method of doing the old thing, and a good system of study. And so, the year moves on until that grand time, June Week, comes. This means practically confinement to the Plebe. He is to be seen and heard at meals and formations only. But he knows that when Graduation Parade comes at the end of the week he has passed successfully through a year, meant to test the best and worst...