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...Pear cider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Absolute Embargo | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...word Statesman Briand last week made public and despatched to 26 Continental Governments tentative but definite proposals for a "United States of Europe,'' the project he launched informally at a League of Nations luncheon in Geneva last fall, "between a pear and a piece of cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The European Union | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...opening in the righthand corner of the end wall on the receiving side called the "grille"; an opening in the end wall on the service side, under the penthouse, called the "dedans." Players face each other on opposite sides of the net. Balls of tightly wound cloth; small pear-headed racquets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In the Courts | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...Order of the Square Heads.'1 All fat circus freaks, Big Bill Thompson, and Charles M. Schwab. Probably no more exclusive a field than "Disciples of the Pear Head" in which class you included Andrew Mellon, wear a 7% "polymathic, polyperverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...Yang Hsin Palace of the Forbidden City. There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed "Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors. He was also allowed to retain the title "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" which is derived from the fact that during the T'ang Dynasty court actors called themselves "Disciples of the Pear Orchard" because they performed in a palace bordered with pear trees. Few would deny any title, however lofty, to a man who, in addition to being supreme in his art, can command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greatest Tan | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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