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...poems have a decidedly mid-Victorian flavor and religious scent. Only as admirable examples of imagination and poetic color can they be placed on the bookshelves of the appreciative...

Author: By D. M. H., | Title: Two New Books of Poetry | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...farmers to a remembrance of grief, there winds through Manhattan the sound of boat horns. To those who grope for sleep in the darkness before dawn, they are hounds baying a gigantic sorrow, whining the threat of a remote doom. In the morning, sharp black noses sniff a zigzag scent across the harbor down the Hudson; the horns make cheerful yappings that in the dark, were the voices of a nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...late disarmament proposals. In his article, "La Canal du Nicaragua ot La Strategie Americaine" in the "Revue des Deux Mondes", March 15, he traces point by point the true basis for the administration's disarmament proposals. They were not put forth, it appears, to throw the public scent off Central America nor in a moment of misdirected pacifist feeling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOREIGN INTERPRETATION | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

...Japanese Garden, with the Turkish flag hanging in it, was a beautiful sight to witness, and was well worth walking across the hall for. It was a likely retreat for timid folks and couple after couple could be seen creeping up the stairs to this garden with its scent of Skunk...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

Senator James A. Reed found a new scent in the Klan-trails of Indiana Republicanism, re-opened his investigation at St. Louis, last week. His particular purpose was to discover what relations existed between Senator James E. Watson and the K. K. K. William M. Rogers, automobile salesman, told this story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 'Honorable Jim | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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