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Missouri may raise the most mules but surely Alabama raises the funniest ones. As far back as I can remember I have been regaled with stories of this remarkable quadruped. And now, "honor to whom honor is due." The enclosed clipping is self-explanatory.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1926 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

For a generation the scintillant acumen of Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: On Whom the Jest? | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Velazquez (1599-1660) because, long ago, he conceived that the plump oval face of a little Spanish prince with beady eyes would almost achieve piquancy if tilted beneath a hat like a black velvet sofa pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: More Sargents | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

Six scientists representing different branches, contributed to a symposium on recent researches in the origin of man. The upshot of it was that man's nearest living relative is the gorilla, though man is not directly descended from him. Dr. Frederick Tilney, the neurologist, comparing cross-sections of the brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With the Diggers | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

All cats must be muzzled, said an official edict at Berlin. Any pussyfooted quadruped will be shot on sight if it is muzzleless. The measure was thought necessary owing to several cases of "feline hydrophobia" having been discovered.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jan. 21, 1924 | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

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