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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinemedition of Novelist Edna Ferbeer's recent opus suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 12, 1925 | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...East, the younger East, enjoys winter. . . . The older East detests it. It longs for Florida and California. And no wonder! What have they here to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Your Publisher | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...been used for the Amendment. Child labor is a social and economic evil, un- healthful for children and a hindrance to their education; the aim of the proposed Amendment is to prevent work for those too young and to prevent too long hours, night work and dangerous work for older children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A 20th Amendment? | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...Blister" or "Bulge" is a device resorted to in remodeling older ships to protect them from torpedo, mine or bomb explosions alongside. In new ships many watertight bulkheads keep the ship afloat in such a case. In older ships, by building a sort of outer hull (the "blister" or "bulge") outside the regular hull, a similar protection is achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Naval Improvement | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

Some 55 years ago, a sickly English boy was shipped by his family out to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother there and build up his constitution. That was the beginning of a longish story that empire-building Britons now teach their children very early in life. The sickly young man dug diamonds, bags of them, at Kimberly. As he dug, his health returned. At 19, he was a 19th Century Croesus with his life before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torpid, Dismal | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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