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PORGY?Negroes chant for the dead; shoot craps; go on a picnic; stab; strangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Said President John Emmet Edgerton of Lebanon, Tenn.: "Bankers are not worrying since they own the country body and souL Importers, merchants, all are having a picnic enjoying the country's 'prosperity' except those by whose enterprise the wealth of the nation is produced." He meant the manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: At Chattanooga | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Three years ago, in Argyle, Ill., Pastor Edgar Smith organized a picnic. At the picnic, he chose 31 of the 40 people who live in Argyle to sing in his choir. At first their anthems were jerky. Then they improved. They were asked to give concerts in the towns and villages near Argyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Argyle Choir | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...which looks discouraging for him of the shellacked locks until he tells Luke and Doris, the fair one's handle, that he was one time intercollegiate wrestling champion or captain of the Yale boxing team,--and how! Doris is not so sure, however, and at the L. and M. picnic she starts a little game of "now, you catch me" and before long young Sweeney is far away in the woods and forgetful of the match. Consequently things look bad for Luke who has bet his roll on the former intercollegiate prom trotter. Not to let his money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...passengers each, will make the tour. Each will have a glass enclosed cabin, wicker armchairs, radio headphones at each seat. Money's Worth. The round-trip fare of $575 includes hotel quarters at tour start and at Chicago, motor carriage between hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside seat at the fight, and "a stop for one hour at the Cleveland landing field in order that the passengers may have an opportunity to stretch their legs and see something of Cleveland's famous Air Port." Souvenirs. Brighter than a boast of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Air Tour | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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