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"Rosie" had intelligent relatives. There was tall, cadaverous Joseph ("Old Joe") Rosenbaum, Cornell and Yale graduate, a mathematician who even cranked his automobile with the precision of a man bisecting a hypotenuse. There was tall, cadaverous Hyman ("Hymie") Rosenbaum, Pennsylvania graduate, another mathematician, a genius so absent-minded that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whetstone | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

Or a ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 14, 1925 | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

"Twentythree minutes and 45 seconds," he answered with the angry precision of the elderly.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

śNewspaper correspondents discovered that a friend had given Mrs. Coolidge "the first camera which she has used since entering the White House," discovered that the camera was of German make. Crowding at a respectful distance about the President and his wife, they recorded with precision that Mrs. Coolidge took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

At Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Auckland, N. Z., gobs were dined, danced, feted. "The smartness of the sailors' uniform, the precision of their movements and their excellent marching won much applause."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: World Cruise | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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