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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase in the new treaty defines as one of its objects "the maintenance of peace and tranquility," few statesmen could construe its major clauses otherwise than a loud war-threat to nations which might conceivably wish to attack Italy or Albania: a tiny Adriatic republic, mountainous, pestilence-ridden, and shaken early this year by a devastating earthquake. Since Italy can expect no substantial aid from so puny and impotent an ally, it became interesting to speculate on why the pact signed last week constitutes "one of the greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved" by Il Duce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Unalterable Alliance | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...discovery has shaken the dermato-logical world to its foundations, although anyone who doesn't keep right up on their dermatological world would never notice it. Perhaps the most tragic of its implications is the disappearance of the bald-headed row. Many a chorus girl's heart will be broken at the disappearance of the mirrors that served for so many years. But the discovery has other advantages than those of beauty. The gold springs not only enable the hair to stand on end, but also to quiver. The mind becomes the treasure house of the soul in a literal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPRING LOCK | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

...hoped that another journal of similar nature will be born to take its place. The Advocate, if it pursues its present policy of a liberal conservatism, will ably care for the less volatile aspirants to literary fame and moreover its foundations are too ancient and secure to be shaken by whims and caprices. With the present arrangement the publications outlook at Harvard is balanced to an unhoped for degree of nicety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSE AND SENSIBILITIES | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

Since then a cable that the Duncan is to be made the heroine in one of those stark biographical novels has further shaken Boston's confidence in its own appreciation of unfettered art. Whether the achievements of Isadora Duncan were art or not will probably remain undecided, but unfettered they certainly were, which is simply not being done in Symphony Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RETURN OF THE WANDERER | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

...demands for other kinds of actors. The films taken by the Harvard Athletic Association staff photographer, of which three copies are to be made in order to insure immediate showing in the Harvard Clubs of the country, may serve in a measure to bolster the courage of the alumni, shaken as it must have been by the misfortune of last May. Graduates who hung their heads when it was announced that Harvard was unrepresented in the original training group of ten, and later that a Princeton "baby star" had been signed for a long term contract by the magnates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUSHING UNSEEN | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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