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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not speak for me." All right, Mr. Steam and Gas Fitter, I don't fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about that. But who-who on earth ever gave you the right to speak for the "rank and file of Roman Catholics if let alone by the Catholic Hierarchy?" The Catholic rank and file, in spite of this metallic voice pounding in the wilderness of South Dakota-yes, the Catholic laity do want parochial schools for their boys and girls. They are eager to have their children trained in religion which makes for morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Last week Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, fat, officious, went to the De King home with the warrant. It was 9 p. m. De King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De King was clubbed into unconsciousness. Lillian De King, his wife, was at a telephone, screaming "Help! Help!" over the wire to their lawyer. Deputy Sheriff Smith fired a shotgun loaded with slugs point- blank into her abdomen. She wilted to the floor, dead. Gerald De King, 12-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fatal Zeal | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Francine Larrimore may be seen in an amusing comedy of manners, "Let Us Be Gay" and Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis are together again in A. A. Milne's slight and not too entertaining whimsy, "Meet the Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Dramatic Club cannot let pass unnoticed the comment on its Spring production, both editorial and otherwise, favorable and unfavorable, which has recently appeared in the columns of the CRIMSON. The Dramatic Club considers this comment as constructive criticism and thanks its critics for crystallizing sentiment on the policies of the Club, past and present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

...rule changes and then explained every rule as an illustration occurred on the field. A new system of signals for the officials was also tried out. Under this arrangement, when a penalty occurs in a game, the referee or the umpire will immediately flash a signal which will let the men in the press box know just what penalty was exacted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG CROWD WITNESSES FOOTBALL TEST CLASH | 4/3/1929 | See Source »

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