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...middle-aged bachelor, petulant and self-centered, is transformed by the appeal of his erring married sister into a chivalrous protector. But other interested parties inform him that he is being fleeced. Immediately all his charitable feelings turn to hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money & Other Troubles | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

These are typical Arlen tales: A young would-be man-about-town finds himself the protector, against his inclinations, of a fascinating girl's honor. A fascinating girl fascinates three young men who are all agog to be fascinated. A fascinating older woman fascinates an older man and then leaves him, fascinatingly, for his good. A fascinating but somewhat irregular lady of doubtful age fascinates a young man, re-fascinates one of her old beaux, who steps in to rescue the fascinated young man?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...easily be recognized from the stands. His stalwart work in the succeeding games and particularly the Yale fracas therefore stood out like a beacon light and made the spectators realize what a consistently fine job he was doing in messing up enemy line attacks. He will be wearing his protector again this season, and those who were constant visitors to the Stadium last year will keep their eyes on "the man in the iron mask" with interest and anticipation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up By Time Out | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

When California was admitted to statehood, Juan Miranda assigned 13,400 acres of land near Petaluna to one Thomas B. Valentine. A poor protector of his own interests, Valentine failed to file this assignment with the U. S., with the result that he was "squatted" out of his holdings. He filed suit. The courts refused to give him back his own land, improved by squatters, but the U. S. recompensed him by issuing to him scrip (certificates) for 13,400 acres of public domain land anywhere else in the U. S. Valentine did not take up his acreage, but dribbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: White Rock | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Mansion Passion. Though Albania may lack roads, she should never lack for royal palaces. Last week Italian workmen and engineers, sent by King Zog's patron and protector, Dictator Mussolini, laid the foundations of a new royal palace, Zog's fifth, outside the grimy old capital city of Tirana. The building will cost more than one million dollars. His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Zog, Not Scanderbeg | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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