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Granted that the most uncomfortable and absurd costume in the world is evening dress, the men can still afford to retort: "Isn't that just like a woman?" This misguided Englishwoman proceeds on the absurd premise that people want to dress comfortably. If comfort were the prime object of top...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WOMAN'S MAN | 11/17/1925 | See Source »

A grand piano is a commonplace, and it was curious how the great assembly in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, stared at one last week as if the sleek, black, three-legged harp were some jungle animal. Some stared because they knew the secret of that sable instrument; others because their neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disappointment | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

"The reason the repertory players have the advantage over other actors is that the men and women who take a different type of part each week are in no great danger of making a hit in one part and remaining in that role or roles much like it all his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/28/1925 | See Source »

Said the Prwvda's returned Comrade Gulliver: "I saw (in New York City) 7,000,000 two-legged animals penned in an evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Different World | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Moose. In Baltimore, led by a detachment of police, behind which marched James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, with the student band of Mooseheart behind them, 18,000 members of the Loyal Order of Moose, in fervent costumes, assembled for the grand parade when-Wumps, came the rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Carp | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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