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...wife planned to make a cinema of any classic as frankly boisterous as The Taming of the Shrew, Douglas Fairbanks said last week: "So much has been written about the romance and marriage of Mary Pickford and myself, and so much of it has been oversweet, that to have filmed a romantic lovestory would have been, to say the least, bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...place a huge pork roast was the kingpin of the fare. What if it were not thoroughly done? Those Michigan boys are too excited to care. Many ate, tearing at the flesh, gulping it with oversweet coffee. At the game the Illinois and Michigan elevens lined up. Whistle. Plop! The kickoff. In ten minutes "Red" Grange made four touchdowns. The Michigan spectators felt sickish. More kickoffs. Touchdowns for this team, for that. Loud and long the cheers. Here and there someone on the Michigan stands grimaced. His stomach griped him. Pork is a heavy thing to eat, burdensome when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trichinosis | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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