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Twenty years ago dapper, whiskered Augusto B. Leguia was President of Peru. A band of rebels, irked at his administration, entered the presidential palace by stealth and kidnaped him. Slim-waisted, short-legged, he was no match at all for his captors. Before the alarm could be given he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Character Day | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Accepting his election with reciprocal gravity, King Mihai at once ordered the club to organize Shetland pony races this season in which His Majesty's own shaggy-legged favorite, Black Beauty, could be entered.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Royal Races | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Standing in the garden of the presidential palace at Lima are U. S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore, widower of famed Lillian Russell; short-legged President Augusto Leguia of Peru; bland Ambassador Emiliano Figueroa-Larrain of Chile.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: First Air Mail | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

For the benefit of Conservatives too shy to sing "Stanley Boy," too lethargic to attend party rallies, a new poster has appeared on British hoardings. It shows a lilliputian David Lloyd George and a bandy-legged Ramsay MacDonald violently speechifying near the easy chair of an apathetic young Conservative.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley Boy | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

The Little Show. Like an animated issue of such smart charts as Vanity Fair and The New Yorker is this revue, gathered by clever Manhattanites from the fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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