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...mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated. The record of his discreet queries and of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's vague ambiguous replies soon made him the hero and Dr. Cook a laughingstock. Since then the Doctor has been put behind the bars of Leavenworth, Kan. prison, while his suave interrogator has become a famed correspondent, a knight, a novelist, and now a short story writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charades | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Premier Raymond Poincare and his Ministers are turkey-gobblers, the laughingstock of the universe, the shame of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Question of Prestige | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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