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...Phantom, President Lowell's cocker spaniel, is dead. This familiar companion of President Lowell on his walks around Cambridge died at the age of sixteen. His passing was described last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL MOURNS DEATH OF PHANTOM, AGED 16 | 3/1/1933 | See Source »

...Unemployment Conference. Their goal : a 40-hr. work week treaty for all the world. Labor's delegates demanded a cut in working time without a proportionate decrease in wages. Capital's delegates stood firmly for a wage cut to offset increased production costs. Britain pooh-poohed "this phantom of a 40-hour convention" whereas Germany warned that the alternative was government doles for years without end. It was estimated that the world is already spending $120,000,000,000 per year to keep its jobless alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Work for All the World | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences of a woman called Eliza, and he persevered. A rocker creaked, but the jaded cushion was anctuary. And the Vagabond answered a fool who wrote "Wouldst thou eat thy cake and have it?"--with a loud gulp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

Laboring far in the wake of more prominent political satires and trailing leagues behind its pennant-winning cousins comes the current offering at the University, "The Phantom President," and it comes not as a stirring triumph in moving picture production but rather as the last-feeble whisper of a once glorious theatrical type. But it has George M. Cohan. The presence of this dean of Broadway's white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into madness, but the last bit of evidence about the finding of the basket she had carried makes us wonder. It is this very uncertainty that makes...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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