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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rather cryptically and ominously the Prince added: "This is not the occasion to discuss the unemployment situation. . . . Should such discussion be invited here, I prophesy an all-night sitting in the Mansion House which would not suit everybody present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wise Wales | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...these details are incidental to the performance offered by Ed Wynn himself. He dominates the evening completely, and in a manner to suit the most exacting. To attempt to describe this gentleman's humor would be suicidal; he must be seen and heard to be appreciated, but he certainly cannot be recommended too strongly. There is doubtless no comedian on the American stage at the present day who has a more natural and universal appeal than Ed Wynn. Little more can or need be said about...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

They appealed to His Excellency, Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, and then to the Holy See, where their suit was denied. Then they went to a secular Rhode Island court and then to the State Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Penitent Daignault | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

General Booth has worn no other suit but the Salvation Army uniform for 54 years. It seemed likely last week that he would battle to the last court not to change his clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of the Booths | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...auctions. On the third floor is tiny Room 303, known as the Intimate Gallery, littered with picture frames, books, mucilage pots, framed and unframed paintings. In the room, at almost any time during the winter season, may be found a keen-eyed little man in a baggy grey suit. He peers inquisitively through silver spectacles, his grey mustache and hair are scraggly, uncombed. His name is Alfred Stieglitz. He is a lover and maker of photographs.* And he is one of the quietest and most admired characters in the art world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Steiglitz into Metropolitan | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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