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There is always at least one moment of ridiculous melodrama in the Show. This came last week when the Countess Ida Marie von Claussen, who once challenged President Roosevelt to a duel, hurled a red ribbon at Judge Walter J. Graham. She considered that her toy poodle. Caprice, had been insulted by not getting the blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remarkable Markable | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...which 104 were present and the two of your cut: Robert T. Pell (right), and friend (correct) is Sydney R. Clarke, recording secretary of the T. N. T., and, as is the custom of the T. N. T., a baby member is fittingly decorated (baby cap and ribbon with nipple attached around neck) at the first meeting after his election, which happened upon this eventful explosion. Robert Pell was responding to his toast "Our Baby Member" when picture was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

After being the guest of honor at a royal Christmas dinner in the Wonderland of Leverett House, the sacred and revered silver rabbit with his red ribbon vanished completely. What hare-brained knave committed the theft or what his motives were in taking the stuffed specimen of "lepus timidus," who with his younger brothers decorates the coat of arms of the house of Leverett, is a mystery which even the Red Queen would not be able to solve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

Following this sudden appearance everything was done to make the rabbit feel at home in its own house. It donned the red silk ribbon offered by members of the House, and with the contented smile of a Chinese idol took its place on the "End" table in the middle of the dining room, and there remained till it was missed on Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "No Hope For the House" as "The Rabbit Which Is Leverett" Vanishes On Thursday--Murdock Mourns Missing Mascot | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

...Graaff turned up the lights and smiled into a circle of marveling faces. A few nights later he was to demonstrate his $90 lightning to the American Institute of Physics in Manhattan. After that he was to build a bigger, 10,000,000-volt model of his ribbon-&-copperball generator at M. I. T. He believes 50,000,000 volts may be possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: $90 Lightning | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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