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...studios; but Paramount has marvelously subdued it?split polysyllabic heroics over it, decorated it with sentimental ribbons, trodden it with captions, tickled it with humor, has supplied it with brass bands and flags and letters from home and photographs of the explorers' children on the croquet lawns of Massachusetts???with everything except, by some unaccountable omission, 'love interest'? has in brief, found it snow and left it slush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: South Pole Vulgarized | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

After many sudoriferous hours, the friends of Senator Harding executed their coup and Harding was nominated. Then while plans were being laid for nominating some good regular for Vice President, the obdurate Judge McCamant rose and suggested the name of the Governor of Massachusetts???quite unexpectedly. And the convention in a mood to do the unexpected, nominated Calvin Coolidge for Vice President. And in the summer of 1923 Fate played another of its tricks and Calvin Coolidge became President. There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unexpected | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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