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...whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called by one of his English-speaking women, Miss Anabelle ("Trixie") Cronan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Despair in Dairen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most wonderful of wines." "I never drink any of the wine when I test it," he continued. "That's what most people think is done, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paladin of Wine | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Hardly a day goes by that one is not forcibly made aware of what these men have been doing for the sweetest of the arts; and even in the black of night the cloistered scholar may awake to find the strains of music penetrating the former fastness of the Yard. How unbecoming then to impute motives other than the keenest interest in making sport to the promoters of the present music marathon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HIGHER THE FEWER | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...towns" indicates that "the most fastest, mo' freer women" are to be found in New Orleans, where "they give you clothes and liquor an' all the lovin' you want, an' when you go to leave have all sorts grievin' fits ... then writes you most sweetest letters man ever read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Mother Machree. William Fox has rediscovered that "Mother" is the sweetest word at the box office. A month ago he released Four Sons, maternal, Bavarian. This week, he released Mother Machree, an Irish valentine. It tells of Ellen (Belle Bennett), who hears in her little Ballymore cottage that her husband has been killed in a sea tornado. With Brian, her son, she starts for the U. S., meeting on the way Bozo (Victor McLaglen), a lanky giant, and his harpist brother. The giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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