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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The very flower of Britain's wartime heroes donned crimson and white robes of chivalry, last week, and assembled as the Most Noble Order of the Bath. The order is primarily militant. Civilians aspire to the Garter, but seldom to the Bath. Therefore last week it was a military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Noble | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Patriots boiled, not at politely perspicacious Ornithologist Knight, but at poetically licentious Hermon MacNeil, designer of the eagle which has been stamped on U. S. quarter-dollars since 1916. "Feet of a duck!" patriots muttered. "Designer MacNeil should be shown a flying eagle and made to try again!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Feet of a Duck | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

On Wednesday night a pleading, cheering, imploring mob of Harvard students filled the Union, chanting "Beat the Princetonian baseball team." To Coach Field's exhortation, in that moment when he silenced the pandemonium with an uplifted hand and said quietly, "Fellows, England expects every man to do his duty," it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TODAY | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

Water v. Wine. Concerning the 18th Amendment Dr. William James Mayo of Rochester, Minn., said: "It is assumed that the drinking of spirituous and fermented liquors is due to an evil inborn longing to be stamped out only by the exercise of individual self-control. Is this true?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms, Drugs, Wines | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Suddenly came a boom, a roar, and the Square of Julius Caesar trembled as if a giant had stamped. Clouds of dust surged up over the crowd and cloaked for an instant the awful tragedy which had occurred. A bomb, planted in the base of the lamp post had exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fatal Lamp Post | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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