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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hague, was welcomed by choral bodies singing the Wilhelmus, and civic, naval and military assemblies. Long and loud were the cheers ot "God save the Queen!" Little Princess Juliana, Holland's future Queen, also received a tremendous ovation from the people. The enthusiasm displayed was said to be rare in Holland. At night the city was a "fairyland of colored lights."; The festivities lasted until Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Queen Willemientje | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...Critics. John Galsworthy: "Her talent was unique among us. . . . her work stirs and excites us, and so quietly; it is an expression of the mood in love with life. It has the rare flavor that endures. Beautiful work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doves' Nest-- Katherine Mansfield Explains Us to Ourselves | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...melodrama better than do I; but it must be a pleasure to be able to portray life as it really is and make it vitally interesting. Many a man can visualize a heroine saved from a villain's grasp by the heroic pistol point; but only the rare genius can make the purchase of a new golf course poignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Owen Davis | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...often as grotesque as they are incisive. Then, he was born in Phalanx, New Jersey. That, in itself, is Dickensian. Woollcott, to me, is the most interesting of our dramatic critics, for he not only seems to have a knowledge of the theatre but he occasionally permits himself rare and unreasoning enthusiasms off the track of popular approval. This is good. Any critic worth his salt, it seems to me, must have the entire world disagreeing with him at least once in a season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iron Door* | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

President Coolidge is a graduate of Amherst College, class of 1895. Among his classmates are Herbert L. Pratt, President of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; and Dwight W. Morrow, one of the ablest of the J. P. Morgan & Co. partners. This is a rare record for any one college class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Amherst '95 | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

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