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...where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed, ludicrously titled, finely acted, richly set, her languor is slightly more girlish and less exciting than that which, in recent films, has ravished U. S. manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...mayoral election had seemed friendly horse play to the Princetonians, but in a presidential election they were not to be trifled with. Their citizenship, mostly newborn, surged within them. Their patriotism, not unmixed with less grandiose emotions common to young-manhood everywhere in football season, mounted to heights that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Princeton | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...there been anything so human, so intimate, so revealing of the real Roosevelt. This record of childish pranks, of boyhood camping and hunting trips, of progress in athletics and studies while a student at Harvard, form the self-told story of a great personality, from nursery days to early manhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Important New Fall Books | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...American manhood and womanhood have been lifted to a nobler sense of duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...this," cried Patriarch Ben, "is a waste of our manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Jubilee | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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