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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then the Tutor got mad, and got up, and got some things to throw. And James James said, "Let me explain myself!" and the Tutor, without thinking, said that he didn't believe that J. J. could be explained, and the last that was seen of the pair, they were removing breakables from the vicinity, and singing, "Just Before the Battle, Mother." Further adventures of J. J. M. M. W. G. D. may be followed in "I Confess," or try your own broker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/12/1927 | See Source »

Recently the citizens of Tokyo chose famed swordsman-fencer Hiromichi Nishikubo as their Mayor. Last week he stepped upon a pair of scales to determine whether his now sedentary life has affected his weight. It has not. Mayor Nishikubo still weighs 238 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Biggest Mayor | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...existed, feared by King and peasant, fought by Pope and priest?at first in furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends." Never mind the magic, what did the witches and sorcerers indisputably do? Their deeds fill this bulky volume?with a bedlam of blasphemy, with a scourge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Representative Huddleston of Alabama said early in the week: "The whole maneuver seems to be something like trying to pick up a pin with an immense pair of blacksmith's tongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Oratory, Etc. | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...last a plump, genial old man in a frock coat and a tall hat arrived. He took a pair of gold scissors from a pretty girl and began portentously to cut the ribbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After 70 Years | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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