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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Court. In the dim court of Assizes, in Paris, during the past fortnight, more than 400 spectators saw the beginning and the end of one of the most gruesome, bloodcurdling, impassioned trials ever to be held in that vaulted hall of justice. Quivering flappers sat to gasp with astonishment beside white & black bearded Jews who exchanged shocked glances with flat-faced Slavic Ukrainians under the noses of red & black-robed judges. Within and without the courtroom was a triple guard of gendarmes to prevent disorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...When I saw him fall I knew he had received five bullets. Then I emptied my revolver. The crowd had scattered. A policeman came up quietly and said: 'Is that enough?' I answered: 'Yes.' He said: 'Then give me your revolver.' I gave him the revolver, saying: 'I have killed a great assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

This struggle also saw the entrance into fame of P. D. Haughton '99, later coach of the Crimson camp in its greatest glory. Minds was regarded as the mightiest kicker of the time, but Haughton consistently outkicked him throughout the game, and the comparative closeness of the score was due in no small measure to Haughton's powerful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cridiron Chosts | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

Newsreaders who saw pictures of the elongated, tilted, curved brass bar, wondered whether it had a comparatively hidden meaning, not completely explained by its title or its admirers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bird | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...painted; critics had never heard his name. Some of the townspeople who remembered his long, bony face, his big, brown, scaly hands, remembered also hearing that when John Kane had finished with swabbing clapboard or pillar, he would go home and paint pictures in his bedroom. The critics, who saw his "Scene from the Scottish Highlands" hung with 119 other U. S. paintings, could believe that its creator had never attended art school. They wondered whether it was an eye for a picture or a nose for a news story that had caused the committee to honor his effort. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: International Exhibition | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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