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Schwab and De Sylva interpret country club life from divots to the bench where the hedge is thickest. They do it in a series of scenes that are real good, and some that are not quite so good. But, all in all, the weak spots are few and far between...

Author: By R. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

...foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun† is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,†† of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest-like buzzards over carrion-voilà tout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Manhattan, not Florence, Venice or Paris, is the modern cynosure of esthetic eyes. No matter how disinterested the artists, the art centre is always where patrons are thickest, where coffers are bulging. Never before had Manhattan's greatest museum received photographs into its collections. Such a reception was thus a victory of great moment for photography and for Alfred Stieglitz...

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

...wildest maelstroms every evening. Nearly every team in the ride led at one time or another. The winners were once five laps behind. The stunning swirl of darting, stumbling, riders that follows every attempt at a stolen lap was virtually continuous through the evening-hours when the crowd is thickest. 360 laps were stolen by the teams in six days; the old record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Six Days | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...furious decades his impetuous voice and heron-like countenance were heard and seen in the thickest of thick fighting, plot and counterplot, through jungles, over the lofty Peruvian sierras, among the Caribbean Islands; until Venezuela and New Granada were liberated as the republic of Colombia; until upper Peru became Bolivia (1825) and the rest of that country was a free republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hero | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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