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Peter orders the provinces to send their prettiest girls to Moscow. He picks a wife, and everyone gets drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brute in Purple* | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...this point the second team opened up its offensive and Crawford started it off by making four yards through the line. Innes followed it up by making one of the prettiest runs of the afternoon for nine yards through tackle and giving the scrubs a first down on the seven yard line. The first team held and kicked out from behind their own goal but the Seconds started again when Crawford ran the punt back 10 yards to the first team's 24 yard line. A pass from Crawford to Gregg netted a 12 yard gain and then Innes smashed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM C HAS BATTLE WITH SCRUB ELEVEN | 10/2/1925 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Ileana, 16, "prettiest daughter of Queen Marie of Rumania and King Ferdinand," to the Duke of Apulia, 26, distant kinsman of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Ileana's less handsome sisters are respectively Elisabeth, exiled Greek Queen and Marie, YugoSlavian Queen. Princess Ileana, although tender in years has already, according to reports, been about to wed the Prince of Wales and King Boris of Bulgaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...most supine soiree, so the presence of a single preeminent conductor enraptures the patrons of summer musical seasons in the U. S. The "catch" of the Hollywood Bowl is Sir Henry J. Wood, famed British conductor. Recently he put his two feet together on the dais, made his prettiest bow to an audience that was probably the largest of his expansive career-an audience that bulged over acres of ground and crowded into the aisle down which, as Sir Henry bowed, a platoon of Welsh bagpipers marched with a strump of drums and a squealing strathspey. Behind Sir Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

Before he was a year old, he had given his aunt the prettiest black eye, that woman swore, which she had ever received. In adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks. Yet his parents, until that day, had been sceptical of his abilities. "There's men in old Ireland could break you in two with a slap of their hand," his father, a wizened hod-carrier, had told him. His mother had intended him for the priesthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strong Boy | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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