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After the airplanes had returned home to roost, the light cruisers Carysfort, Caledon, Curacoa, Calliope and the destroyer Vectis pounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: With Davy Jones | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Cock o' the Roost" at the St. James, light comedy by the author of "Little Old New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Plays to Open in Boston January 19 | 1/14/1925 | See Source »

MEET THE WIFE?An affable little flutter into the realms of the agreeably henpecking wife who rules the roost and the roosters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE THEATRE: New Plays: Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...living crippled, bed-ridden and penniless at a small inn near Aachen." Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante of Bela Kun. She is described as "a woman with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa." Today our troops are returning with purpose unaccomplished, leaving their dead and their country's honor on the sands of Mexico. The eagle that screamed so bravely at Tampico is glad to come back to roost "at any price," and we are once more the laughing-stock of the world...

Author: By Phi BETA Kappa society. and Walter Silz, S | Title: NATIONAL HONOR HURT | 10/26/1916 | See Source »

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