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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Storms are first forecast by those who fear them most. Storms in human affairs are often precipitated by sheer nervousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: It's An Issue? | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Coolidge always knew more definitely what he did not want than what he wanted. His messages were often vague on the positive side but crystalline in their clarity about his dislikes and aversions. ... He is negation incarnate. As President, he bestraddled progress face backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Looking Back | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Prince Felix Youssoupov was to my father apparently one of his dearest friends. He often came to our house in Petrograd. That evening in 1916, which was to be his last, my father said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Debauchee's Daughter | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...talkies. In full-length drama-films, Movietone uses synchronized orchestra accompaniment, occasional songs, but no spoken dialog. Vitaphone has put dialog into its The Lion and the Mouse, Glorious Betsy, Tenderloin. These films run along quietly and then, at dramatic moments, burst into dialog. The effect is startling, but often annoying. Vitaphone plans the following new talking and singing films: Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, Fannie Brice in My Man, Dolores Costello in Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talkies | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...often the case just after the summer solstice, religious-minded persons convened last week in many places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conversations | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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