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...lovable Mr. Weatherby, but his seduction in the mountain shack is somewhat repulsive. Autumnal passion is not particularly engrossing except to psychologists and sardonic novelists. Unless it be handled with the utmost finesse, is a questionable theme for light comedy, and in Jenny it is presented with a clumsy schoolboy suggestiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Macaulay's schoolboy were living today, he undoubtedly could name the nation's largest bank. It was last winter's series of mergers which made people conscious of bank sizes, so that now even businessmen know that the National City is U. S. biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Biggest | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...first-year players to conditioning exercises. French yesterday announced that there would be a cut in the squad today and that serious preparation for the opening clash would then get under way. The coaches have spent most of their time getting a line on prospective material among the former schoolboy players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUT IN 1933 SQUAD IMMINENT | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

...British schoolboy about Burton-on-Trent and loudly will he answer, "That's where the ale comes from." Ask him what ale and he will cry, "Bass's Ale!" Almost as familiar as the Prince of Wales' three feathers is the pale red triangle of Bass's Pale Ale and Stout, sign manual of the firm of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton who have brewed the potent, acrid, yellowish brew?which Britons drink in preference to beer?ever since Washington wintered at Valley Forge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince's Brew | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...same time the Freshman tennis players will be meeting Worcester Academy in what should prove to be an easy triumph in as much as the schoolboy record is anything but impressive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENNIS TEAM WILL FACE WILLIAMS MEN TODAY | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

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