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Revues also have many peculiarities, some of them absurd. Among the latter are somewhat naked chorus girls, most burlesques of Strange Interlude, Frankie and Johnny contortionists, and the later works of Roger Wolfe Kahn. These J. P. McEvoy does not snub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Excitedly played by citizens of many lands, last week, was the game of Ring Around Nobile-a question game. Was that Swede really eaten by those two Italians? Would Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn't she eaten? Is bitch eating worse than cannibalism? Russia. Moscow and Leningrad saw redder than usual, last week, as the great Communist newspapers Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia ("News'") flayed "these Fascist swine!" An editorial in Pravda-whose editor is Nikolai Bukharin, closest associate of Dictator Josef Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ring Around Nobile | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...treet, pursued by a black bulldog. At the corner was a synagog; knowing well that the bulldog would never dare to follow hem inside, the five screeching urchins scampered toward its door and jostled .hrough. When the bulldog reached the door, he pushed it open with his flat snub nose and dashed inside. Barking furiously and growling in the solemn gloom, he cornered the five boys and bit each on one or both legs. After that, the bulldog, still snarling, was taken to the Board of Health; the five boys were dragged whimpering out of the synagog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Philo McCullough) an engineer. Both loved snub-nosed Kate (Jobyna Ralston) daughter of the lunch room lady. Jim warns Bat to go slowly round the curve. Bat speeds up, skids, smashes into the ditch. Unhurt, Jim fires up old Engine No. 99, hauls on the mail bags, rushes to Medicine Bend on time, winning the contract and Kate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Stocky snub-nosed Herbert N. Rawlins Jr., who lives in New York and who plays squash racquets at the Racquet and Tennis Club, went to Philadelphia last fortnight and won the national squash racquets championship. He beat Myles P. Baker of Boston, champion last year, in straight games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Squash Racquets | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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