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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Championship officially got underway yesterday in the University Courts, only one first round match had been played last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATE SQUASH TOURNEY UNDER WAY, CAPTAIN ISELIN FAVORED | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which she had religiously stirred through the night in accordance with instructions left by her great-great-grandmother, who was said to be a wonderful herbalist and who was even credited, in her day, with performing miracles. On receiving an assurance that the lotion would be applied to the King's chest, she left contentedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crown | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crown | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Snow sifted down upon the Alban and the Sabine hills, one night last week; and when a pink dawn came Pope Pius XI was seen to look out early from his palace window at the pinky snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Christus Vincit! | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...battle with Col. Stewart, although his routine was likely to suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that he may be more like his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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