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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Dynamite is as harmless as a lead pencil if you know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moffat Tunnel | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Married. Mimi Brokaw, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan clothier; to Richard Derby Tucker, grandson of the late Dr. Richard Derby; in Manhattan. Died. Trajan Grosavescu, Rumanian tenor, after singing "Woman is Fickle" in Rigoletto; shot by his wife in a jealous rage, in Vienna. This news caused the first extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Machine guns crackled last week in the tortuously inclined streets of Lisbon. The city, built like Imperial Rome on seven hills, was weathering the 18th Portuguese revolution since 1910.† Last week the struggle between the two factions of the military adventurers who now dominate Portugal became so furious that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: 18th Revolution | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Off-Key is Arthur Caesar's play about a literary man (played by McKay Morris) who orates upon the freedom of the married woman only to wax illogically furious upon discovering that his wife (played by Florence Eldridge) had once been free. From then on, it is every man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

HARVARD HOLY CROSS Leekley l.f. r.g. Reilly Dorn r.f. l.g. Brady Green c. c. Kittredge Barbee l.g. r.f. Morris Malick r.g. l.f. Connors

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLY CROSS FIVE BATTLES CRIMSON | 2/9/1927 | See Source »

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