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...Plum!" to a Dane and he will think of butter-vital Danish export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Plum the Great | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Eccentric Harald Plum has long been Copenhagen's butter Croesus. The boom of a cannon across the harbor came to mean merely that he was through business for the day and had sailed out to Plum Island, to chomp voraciously through a rich dinner topped with pastry and champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Plum the Great | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Plum's first coups were not in butter but small arms. During the War he sold some thousands of Danish recoil rifles, grew vain, secretly published an anonymous biography of himself crammed with pictures of Balkan and European royalties, implying that all had received him whereas many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Plum the Great | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Jewish prime minister of England in 1875 to buy a public utility for his kingdom have been made into a picture as exciting as a detective story. This is odd but it is odder still that, although Louis Parker's old play is no more than effective theatrical plum pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Since the eating of garlic and the drinking of slivovitza (plum brandy) are old Serbian pastimes, the fact that their prohibition could be issued and enforced was considered a triumph for King Alexander's dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Breathless Conductors | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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