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...Stigma. Last year when they both acted in The Makropoulos Secret, Donald Duff was inspired to write a play for Joanna Roos. He called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Frank Smith would rather die than suffer this stigma. The Senate has been his life ambition, and to say that he shall be disqualified because of an act that was not illegal, has never been illegal and is not illegal today, is incomprehensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jack, Daniel, Frank | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...surrendered; in a deep sleep at Point Pleasant, West Va. He was blamed for the burning of Chambersburg and wandered as an exile for two years, following the Civil War. Part of this time he saw military service in Mexico under Maximilian. General Grant intervened in 1867, quashed the stigma attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 7, 1927 | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...shares in the American company. Rufus Isaacs bought ?10,000 worth, soon selling ?1,000 to David Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer. The affair came to light. Mr. Lloyd-George was bitterly assailed for profiting privately from official information. Parliament, however, acquitted me of all stigma and let the others off as having been merely 'indiscreet.' "In 1914 I was honored with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. The Fritz and Franklin medals in the U. S. were also mine; all the important crosses and decorations of Italy descended upon me; indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Italo-Hibernian | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

What moved Baron von Bissing to this abhorrence of his fatherland? His friends declare that a partial cause was the judicial murder of a woman whose death was laid at the door of General von Bissing by Allied propaganda- Miss Edith Cayell. To erase that stigma from his family name was the futile hope and almost fanatical desire of the late Baron Walter von Bissing. The death of Miss Cavell has, of course, begun to seem less of a martyrdom to impartial neutrals as the facts have come to light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Von Bissing s Will | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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