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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's henchman, Frank Waterman Stearns, was re-named "the Colonel House of Boston." Prohibition Chief Lincoln C. Andrews saw himself tending bar to a furtive, thirsty Uncle Sam. Very few Gridiron perennials were dragged out but Coolidge Silence got its time-honored mention, as did the Coolidge electrical horse. The latter, however, was rechristened "Old Dynamo, by Tom Edison out of Electric Socket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Horseplay | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Like the words of our copatriot Aimee McPherson: "To err is human,"1 I made a slight error and my dear Uncle Sam invited me to spend a short time in Leavenworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Married. Aileen Hughes, daughter of the late General Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian "War Minister"; to one James Freeman Clarke, at Lindsay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...young woman named Maurine Watkins knew all these things, knew what Broadway theatregoers gobble up, bestirred herself to dramatize "Hatrack" and Revelry. Last week it was announced that Sam H. Harris will probably produce the two plays in Manhattan in the late spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatrack, Revelry | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Therefore, the lines are written in blank verse, a special musical accompaniment is provided to exalt them still higher. Unfortunately, the play, weighted down by heavy-handed craftsmanship and uninspired poetry, ascends to nothing loftier than pompous platitudinousness. Specimen of the verse: "a magnificent flood of mothers' milk." Sam Abramovitch might as logically have been Hans Schneidewind but for the local box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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