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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What had the artist against the explorer to do such a thing and where was your art editor when he let it pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...accorded personal receptions on the wide veranda of "Brucemore," an estate, equipped even to pond swans, owned by a Mrs. George W. Douglas. There were no speeches or press statements. The Nominee, with smiling Western Manager James W. ("Sir James") Good for impresario, simply shook hands with every one, let them look at him, talk to him, ask him questions. A North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that Hooverism is extremely Dry. (North Dakota lately voted within 5,000 of repealing its longtime State enforcement law.) North Dakota's boyish Senator Gerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Homecoming | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Nominee Smith, Governors Ritchie of Maryland and Moore of New Jersey, and Senator Edwards of New Jersey, sat on top of a tall tallyho and paraded through Camp Moore at Sea Girt, N. J. An escorting horseman let his mount sidle into one of the coach's four horses. The coach horses reared, swerved. The tallyho tipped sharply, on two wheels. Nominee Smith and friends clutched their seats. Driver Charles Die reined the horses, straightened the coach. No one was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxi, Tallyho | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...Let the ax dance over their bald pates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietana | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Women Patients. In foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dentists | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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