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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exactly doing-he is making propaganda. Only little pamphlets! Books are impossible-he can not get them into Russia. . . . We are good friends. Very often I go to see him and explain my ideas. He does not go so far toward Spirituality as I do-but more or less. He is more anxious to make propaganda and tell the people he is Tsar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Three Grand Dukes | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...systems of 30 years ago. Some of their equipment actually dates from that period. Important cities have no direct links; rural telephones scarcely exist. Around each densely settled community is spun a small network of telephones, having no relation to neighboring networks. In all Latin America, there is less than one telephone for each 100 inhabitants. The present U.S. ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Behn Design | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Vaterland during the War, of antagonizing the Russian aristocracy, and terrorizing the peasantry-in short, of causing downfall to the Russian empire. That this one woman should be held responsible for the inevitable revolt against centuries of abuse is patently ridiculous. But she served as convenient symbol-though less charmingly than Marie Antoinette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omens | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Fomona, Calif., 75 dwarfs met together to form the Small Men's Association of America, comprising only human beings less than four feet high, of which they became charter members. Midgets, little men who are not, like dwarfs, in some way stunted or deformed, could become associate members. There was no reason for forming the association except that the dwarfs wished to band themselves together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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