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...Dowager Queen Marie was not without words of cheer: "Hasn't Rumania a small, bright star on her horizon?-Our little King Mihai, our tender but lovely hope. He is our symbol, and just because we are a young country and because of our struggles and griefs, what sweeter symbol could we have than a little innocent child, around whom one and all, great and small, rich and poor, unite to guide and help and protect-little Mihai, our King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Tender But Lovely Hope | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Grace Hay's record has arrived. I MUST HAVE THAT MAN and I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE are the numbers. A warmer, sweeter voice than Helen Kane, and more subtile. A really...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

Bubbling with a champagne sparkle of mellower, sweeter, vintage is the tale of a Syrian from the sidewalks of New York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vin Mousseux de Champagne | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...does it require any studied argument to make a Christian of John Tyler. As a member of the Episcopal Church he talked the language of Jesus. When being solicited to help the son of one of his political persecutors he said, "I would seek no sweeter revenge over my enemies than to do them favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler v. Lincoln | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

From a chamber of commerce standpoint no convention sugar plum is sweeter than the League of Nations. It never quite adjourns. The Permanent Secretariat teems constantly with women & young women directed by a few males. Several times a year there are big convention weeks when the Council meets, or the Assembly, or both. Moreover the League draws smart and moneyed spectators to neighboring hotels. For seven years the League plum has meant rich lickings to the Swiss city of Geneva. Suddenly, last week, President Edmund Schulthess of Switzerland learned with hopping indignation that the Austrian Government is now definitely bidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Sugar Plum | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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