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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco (Dolores Costello). With her proud father she dwells on the sunny, ivy-grown rancho of the Vasquez family, who founded San Francisco. There she might have breathed rose-laden zephyrs and married Terrence O'Shaughnessy (Charles Mack) but for Buckwell (Warner Oland), villainous politician. He wants to take away her rancho. Because she senses that, despite appearances, this wretch is a Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...Miles. Rum-laden, the steamer Underwriter bobbed some months ago along the Atlantic Ocean, 34 miles from land. Rum-seeking, a Coast Guard vessel bobbed after. Eventually the Coast Guard boat caught the Underwriter, took from her 811 cases of whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Supreme Court's Week | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...between ships all the way across the ocean so that the junket-ers could exchange messages and keep tabs on what all were doing. All six ships had their entertainment committees, to think up daily "programs" such as Rotarians enjoy at home only once per week. Each ship was laden with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful thing to have on an Atlantic trip. Sometimes the evenings are a bit cool and the regular constitutional round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: On to Ostend | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...might safely predict that within a year they would be discovered to be brass. The brief time necessary for delapidation, and worse, to set in college dormitories would be deemed impossible to any besides those who have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight until it is only with agony that they manage to creep to their destinations. And there are times when they cease motion entirely leaving the inhabitants of these imposing chateaus the privilege either of walking up the dingy, tortuous flights or of remaining below stairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLEASURES AND PALACES | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

...band blared into Bright College Years, drowning out cries of "Yoo-hoo!" and "Look over here!" Newsgathers scurried about the decks and dock, accumulating details of the first world cruise of a floating university. Through the customs, laden with souvenirs ranging from Siamese turtles to Norwegian cheese forks, leaving their cabins cluttered with enough "junk" to fill an international museum, poured the 500-odd floating students with their variously aged traveling companions and faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Florida | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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