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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DIAMOND ROSE MYSTERY−Gertrude Knevels−Appleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...whine of wind sounded across the water, quivered the palm fronds. Far out the sea turned frothy with whitecaps. The sun grew bloodred. The whine of wind became a scream and the sky shrieked. Roofs, bodies and trees were lifted like paper, scattered abroad. Over the shores rose the tortured sea. The sky was dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Great Winds | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...young woman rose very pale from the baccarat table at Deauville Casino. She swayed and seemed about to faint, then her eyes fixed on a swarthy, paunchy Indian, His Highness the Aga Khan. As though impelled by hypnosis she took a step toward the Khan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Deauville Drolleries | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...flashing black beauty and fabulous fortune to her Cousin Jamie. But "she was a black woman on a red ground ... a sight he should have seen last year, on his tour, not now, home in safe sunny England." Terrified, he ran off with Menella, fair-haired handmaiden in "rose linen sprigged with small corn flowers and carnations." They swore to be true "till death us do part." Hariot's death, by her own jealous hand, did part them, and haunt them, till Jamie rode to his own frenzied death, and thus joined the siren he had jilted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tainted | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...command from His Majesty King Amanullah, a new standard rose and streamed aloft. It was striped vertically black, red, green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Red for Independence! | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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