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Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...Into the executive offices, from the Kingdom of Ethiopia, marched Dr. C. Martin, legal adviser to Prince Regent Ras Taffari of Ethiopia, bearing a handsome shield in a brilliant red case. The President, prohibited by law from accepting gifts from foreign countries, permitted the shield to repose on his desk until its proper disposi- tion should be advised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Patrolmen Sheehan and Gillee took note. "An anarchist, maybe!" said Patrolman Gillee. On seeing a great lout, lumbering along the nearly deserted street, firing off a gun in crazy fashion they were convinced. Overtaking Patrolman Burns, they whacked his head with clubs, searched him for explosives, found his police shield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Policemen | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Ignacio, Calif., no honest dog stood by to shield Irene Malla, 18, when she went into the fields to milk her cows. Proceeding, she disturbed the ruminations of a bull, could not elude him. The beast caught her on his horns, gashed her thigh, threw her over a fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...apprenticeship as waterboy and brakeman he bears no mark. In the days of pin coupling, brakemen were seldom "set up" as conductors before they had managed to lose a finger or two. Conductor Kennedy's hands and memories are as smooth as a college professor's. The shield-shape perforation which he carefully makes in your ticket, in your presence', is done with the punch he used on his first passenger trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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