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Each week the Harvard players write down their moves for the four games and send them by postcard to Powell. The progress of the game is kept on a graph. It is expected that this match will last about a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN CHESSMEN PLAY OPPONENTS THROUGH MAIL | 3/2/1933 | See Source »

Here the modern Mercury paused to read a postcard from Carcassonne, France, but as all he could see was "Having a swell time, wish you were here," he discarded it into a mailbox and shouldered his bag anew. "That is the trouble with education; they try to fill you full of a lot of stuff that never will do you any good. I suppose Greek and Latin are going to help you make money, or Shakespeare to do a good job delivering letters? My son isn't going to take any of that stuff--he's going to take practical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Classics Of Little Use To Cynical Mail-Carrier Who Abandoned Books In Disgust--Urges More Practical Courses | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

...formula, as printed in postcard form for handy mailing from "Bilgray's Tropic Bar & Restaurant": Babylonian Grape Brandy, Ice from the crest of Mount Sinai, Lemon from the desert of Sin, Gomorrha and Sodom Vermouth, Rum aged in Noah's Ark, Add Cain's Syrup from the garden of Eden, You then give it the Hebrew shake, and Say Hallelujah after drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...Peter Arno's (Curtis Arnoux Peters) earlier drawings shows an upright U. S. tourist being accosted in Paris by a smirking obscene-postcard-vendor; the caption is "Feelthy pictures?" No fly-by-night hawker of crude pornography, sexy Artist Arno accosts his public in broad daylight, through the pages of the New Yorker. Many an old-fashioned person would not understand Arno's allusions but would consider them "feelthy" if he did. One prominent English bookseller was so shocked by the English edition of Peter Arno drawings (Peter Arno's Parade) that he refused to sell the book. But Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Feelthy Pictures | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Nineties photographs which illustrate many of the advertisements are obtained from Brown Bros., oldtime newsphoto agency of Manhattan. The picture of the young man in the "Faery Soap" ad of the current issue ("Whoops! I'm just curazy about Faery Soap!") was taken from a French postcard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: McCormick's Straw | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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