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One cannot feel that Mr. Powel went through any great creative torment to write "Married Money." On the contrary, he must have had a lot of fun doing it. He mocks a good many American foibles, but in a way so good-natured and light-hearted that he leaves the...

Author: By G. P., | Title: By Two Harvard Novelists | 2/21/1930 | See Source »

Now there's "Saki". Anyone who hasn't read "Saki" (the pen-name of H. H. Munro, an Englishman killed in the War) should, and anyone who has read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/30/1930 | See Source »

Sonja Henie is a well made, light-haired girl with a good-natured, intelligent face and muscular legs. She is 17 and has been figure-skating champion of the world for the last three years. She has won the Olympic title once and the Norwegian six times. Her father, William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skating | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

William Wrigley Jr. of Catalina Island, baseball (Chicago ''Cubs''), gum and the Wrigley Building, is stout, bluff, good-natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chicago Buyers | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grand Jamboree | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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