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...Italian exploitation of a railway and British construction of certain mighty water works for irrigating the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Smart, the Abyssinian Regent yielded momentarily, but subsequently made to the League of Nations a squa.wk so potent that British public opinion turned against the exploitation scheme? leaving in the lurch Benito Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fascist New Year | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...theatre is a dusty kennel, full of drafts and dust, scented forever with a sweet, unreal and sticky perfume, built of planks and plush, to house deceptions. Hoboken, N. J., is a squat and smoky suburb of Manhattan, a place where trains load and boats dock, where beery workmen lurch home along cobbled streets and where the world of art is chiefly represented by ancient and execrable examples of the cinema. Why then should anyone want to own a theatre in Hoboken, N. J.? Famed Author Christopher Darlington Morley (Where the Blue Begins, Thunder on the Left) knows, for last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Boos Begin | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Clang! Clang!-an ambulance rushed through Moscow, turned with a lurch into the Boulevard Lubianka, and pulled up before the most dread address in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bombs & Executions | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Leaving the Smith bandwagon in what they hoped was the lurch were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Bandwagon | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached Dublin, Ireland, whence they were to attempt a longer lurch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fliers, Flights | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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