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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While his father and mother received on the Hot Springs Country Club porch, John Coolidge strolled over to a group of five young girls, who put their arms around one another's backs and giggled. They said he should come over some night when there was a dance. He said, "I'd like to." He surveyed the golf course and stated that he had been playing that game in the East lately, with Russell Wood of the U. S. Secret Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Satin Woman (Mrs. Wallace Reed). The heroine is a Mother. In order to save her daughter from a cabaret sheik, she vamps the man herself. This is doubly effective strategy, for it succeeds in recapturing the interest of her own husband, who has been straying toward a passionate brunette. When the entire family has been corralled, Mother gives up the fashion shows and night clubs to return to the hearth. Thus the dumpling of Virtue is set, though not obtrusively, upon the hotcakes of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...tell the mother of little Horace to tell Horace that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pitkin's Bone Hammer | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Occidentals asked, "What of the mother, and Baroness Tanaka?" Japanese replied that, even though an O Mekake, or "honorable concubine" may give birth to a child which is recognized as legitimate, she still continues in the status of an humble household servant. By ancient custom the child is removed from its mother's care at birth, and she first sees it again 30 days later, when all the household servants assemble to pay their respects to the new "Little Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: 0 Mekake | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

When William Hearst came to Manhattan where, with money borrowed from his mother,* he acquired another jaundiced journal. He was to cure it of financial jaundice and infect it with another ocherous bug. It was the yellow wrappings of the "funnies" in this newspaper from which grew the household epithet "yellow journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President's Bible | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

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