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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These words are Spanish whereas in Brazil only Portuguese (not Spanish) is spoken (or didn't you know it?) and therefore the correct spelling is "Senhor," "Senhora" and "Senhorita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...experience in public office made me know that whether I was to be overburdened with work and broken down in health depended more on myself than any act of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

There are more Mormons in London than in Salt Lake City, but their wives don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dry World? | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

People who like to sniff the famed perfumes of FrançoisCoty will be glad to know that the paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Methods! | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Christmas is quite another thing. All the brains that have been racked and paper wasted in vain attempts to analyse the spirit of Christmas show how little any of us know about it after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

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