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...shining with full splendor upon the sea which surrounds the Scilly Isles, a flight of airplanes soared into the air from their seagoing carriers. For several miles they whirred their way through the morning stillness to a spot where H. M. S. Monarch bobbed like a bottle on the rippling swell. As each machine passed over, a large, fat bomb was dropped; for the Monarch was to be sunk in accordance with the terms of the Washington Arms Treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: With Davy Jones | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...riches and society. Silk sheets and aquatic revels in the garden were his stock in trade. He became one of the conspicuous cinema cheaters of truth. He prospered. This one is about a bed with an ancient history and how its influence affected modern characters. It has specimen splendor of the De Mille method. It is about as tasty as painted candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Russian Ambassadors, too, have been noted in the past for the splendor of their ambassadorial receptions; but all that belongs to another age. Today, working clothes, red ties and other hallmarks of the proletariat are in fashion at the Bolshevik Embassies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bolshevik Simplicity | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Smooth gliding Hispano-Suizas, Minervas, gracefully imperious Renaults, the more conventional Rolls-Royces have begun again to deposit their precious burdens at the sacrosanct portals of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, of the Auditorium, Chicago. Venerable gentlemen in the prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

...super-motion picture, made as this picture should be made, on a scale in keeping with the sublimity of the theme, with all the splendor and wealth of material which the theme itself lends, and with all the wonderful technical resources which the art of the motion picture now commands, will be the most unique event in the history of motion picture production and an achievement in the cause of religion whose far-reaching results are beyond computation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Art | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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