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...leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot was asked if he talked politics. "Not a pol," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: First Fishing | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...POL.?It is backed like a weasel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...POL.?Very like a whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Wicker shambles | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...Stekene, Belgium, Conductor Van Hove de Saint-Pol put his orchestra through the paces of a brisk number, brought it to an abrupt end and ordered a funeral march. Whispering complaints, his players fumbled for their scores. But Saint-Pol hissed them quiet, tapped for attention, led the march through and dropped dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Valedictory | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

There followed the Golden Age at the Metropolitan, with such singers as Nordica, Pol Plancon, Fremstad, the de Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tini's Life | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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