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...against the Prince of Wales. As far as I can remember (and that is some two years back) she has been scolding you about the Prince's baggy eyes, or is it trousers? You need no humorous column as long as you sow your LETTERS with such luscious tidbits of outraged virginity. If you stop my subscription because of the above-I'll -I'll-well, I'll have no more sunshine in my dreary, newspaper life! THEODORA MARCONE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...observations from aboard the Filipino- financed Bustamente (TIME, July 26, et seq.). Slowly the little steamer pushed through hundreds of emerald islets in a turquoise sea beneath azure heavens-on, on to Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white helmet to the glistening coral beach, proceeded to the Island of Palawan where a launch took him up the Iwahig River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sentimental Journey | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...Juarez died of apoplexy (1872) and the Church of Rome, deathless, unsleeping, recovered its preponderant ascendancy in Mexico during the more than quarter-century-long presidencies of Porfirio Diaz (1877-80, 1884-1911), largely, it is touted, through the good offices of his two pro-Catholic wives, the second, luscious, youthful, blooming. Since then the governments of Mexico have been too unstable to combat the Vatican seriously, until the rise-of President Calles, backed by a resolute, anti-Catholic agrarian-laborite support of Communistic ilk. For the present the Vicar of Christ has contented himself with ordering prayers throughout Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Eternal Struggle | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Newspaper readers rejoiced that the excuse had been found for reviewing so luscious an episode?relished again the choice memory of Countess Vera Cathcart, self-advertising adultress, who had been Carroll's chief guest; the presence of other fascinating people, such as dissolute Harry K. Thaw and Editor Philip A. Payne of the Daily Mirror (Hearst gum-sheet); the transcript of Carroll's earlier testimony, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: In Manhattan | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...London: and labelled it a feast of Lucullus. With watering mouth and rising temperature, the author of the reply listed the vintages arrayed before the Russians: Sauterne, claret, champagne port, brandy, and vodka. It drew the moral that a society tea is but a quick lunch beside a good, luscious, Bolsheviki spread...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JOURNALISTIC CUISINE | 2/5/1926 | See Source »

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