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...home again with Rose and happier times follow. One midsummer evening in her 15th year Linda walks out in the apple-orchard, lies on the ground, feels a strange change in her mind, her blood. Shawn's farm is no longer the heart of her world. The orange moon, ris ing over the apple trees, is to set her life's tides from now on. She leaves the orchard a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Midsummer's Child | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...still wore on his yest a fraternity pin, reminiscent of his college days at Maine and Yale. In one corner of the room was a large basket of flowers from the Kiwanis Club of his home town which he later acknowledged with his characteristic unassuming naivete during his Act. Ris whole attitude was distinctly not theatrical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Simple and Sincere Attitude to His Art and His Public Is Rudy Vallee's Secret of Success--Enjoys Acclamation | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...know the ropes in South America predicted that the 15 German girls who left Berlin last week will land at Montevideo, Uruguay, whence they will be smuggled across the border into Argentina, and will then start dancing in Buenos Aires at one of the Bix Six cafes: Ta-Ba-Ris, Armenonville, Casino Pigall, Maipu Pigall, American Dancing and Folies Bergere. Of these the first two are comparatively high class, with champagne obligatory at $13 per pint or $23 the bottle; but at the last four mere "drinks" are obligatory at between $2 and $3 each, the hostesses gulping colored water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: One Slave Per Year | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

Well, my career in the cinema went right over people's heads and became a financial failure. So I decided to become literary instead, and spent a lot of time in the ris-kay literary invirament of the Algonquin. So my gentleman friend said that I seem to be full of nothing so much as cute ideas, and the ones that are the most amuseing to the reading public are about my un-mental friend Dorothy. Because I use Psychology and understand that there are some people in the world who cannot help it if thier instincks are unnatural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

George William Norris, deep-eyed Utopian of the Senate, was formally entered as a favorite-son candidate by fellow Nebraskans. The chief effect will be to discourage the discouraged Lowdenites. In Wisconsin, Republicans of the La Follette stripe also declared for Senator Nor- ris, as scheduled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boomlets | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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