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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalcitrant lover, a timidly lecherous golfer whose eyebrows kept going back on him whenever he saw a pretty girl, was Jack Haley, an infallible absurdity. When he broached the matter of his grandmother's bed, someone suggested that it was probably one of those beds George Washington had slept in. "We could never get Grandma to admit it." said the unilateral Haley. More samples of locker room esprit were forthcoming; John Sheehun, a sturdier comedian, described taking a bath as "dunking the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...clock mass in Manhattan. He then reviewed 800 Postal Telegraph boys at City Hall. He then went to the West 20th Street station on another murder case. He then accompanied his daughter on a gallop through Central Park. He then went home (No. 43 Fifth Avenue), slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New York's Whalen | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Most of the entourage having slept through the Niagara Falls sojourn, the Instrumentalists arrived in Buffalo in time for the luncheon at the Saturn Club on Delaware Avenue. This was followed by swimming in the Club's excellent pool before the tea dance at the Club from 4 to 6 o'clock. A special holiday dinner was served to the men before they left for the Twentieth Century Club where the concert was followed by a dance. The Tennis Club and Country Club dances each attracted a Harvard following, while the greatest number of men went to a special entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Instrumentalists Receive Royal Reception on Tour Through East and Middle West--Concerts Are Given in Five Cities | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...becomes monotonous. William Bushnell Stout who makes all-metal planes for Ford Motor Co. and who is an executive of both Northwest Airways and Stout Air Services, remarked at Lehigh University last week that two out of five air passengers sleep enroute. In Germany last week one George Hermann slept so soundly while the Junkers plane on which he was a passenger bucked and twisted to a crash, that he knew nothing of the trouble until the smash-up made him bite off his tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Flyers: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...belle; in Sotine, Jugoslavia. There were 2,750 invited and uninvited guests who consumed, during nine days and nights of celebration, six cows, 16 calves, 600 chickens, 300 turkeys, 20,000 quarts of beer, 10,000 quarts of wine, 200 quarts of plum whiskey, then they fell into haystacks, slept two days and two nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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