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Students know him as the kindly man who crosses the campus with an Airedale terrier, which shares his popularity. They know him also as the husband of a gracious spouse, and regard the pair much as King George & Queen Mary are regarded in England. There is a student song which goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whitest Man | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...most important male star in pictures should find this almost perfect, because it is very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake if I had to blame anyone else.") ; taking Loretta Young on a merry-go-round; accepting the ?5,000 his fiancee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...slight, gentle little man with a small mustache and an Airedale terrier walked down one of Princeton's quiet, leafstrewn streets one afternoon last week and turned in at University Field. As soon as the burly young men who were punting, passing, scrimmaging over the scarred grass saw the visitor they immediately dropped their practice and gathered about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Whence | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...accent slip out onstage. Her original intention was to become a dancer, but she broke her ankle after appearing in the first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Woodley," his Washington home, Statesman Stimson was waiting on the second floor for dinner to be announced when he saw a shadowy form at the window, heard footsteps on the porch roof. Cricket, his Scotch terrier, jumped up, growled a warning. Secretary Stimson threw open the window, rushed downstairs, outdoors, saw somebody sliding down a porch pillar, running away into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Brave Cricket | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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