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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually blamed on his nose. "Most of our Academicians," opined Napoleon, "are writers whom one admires with a yawn." His biographer Merezhkovsky (pronounced Meer-ish-kawf-skee) is not such a writer. A strange trilogy has "made" Merezhkovsky - a trilogy distinguished by vividness, mysticism and symbolism. It consists of three novels, each one glorifying some significant man into an Antichrist - Julian the Apostate, Leo nardo da Vinci, Peter the Great. But these are novels; the Merezhkovskian Life of Napoleon, less tightly woven than the author's previous book on the same idol, distinguishes itself from the mass of Napoleonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Human History | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Work Done. The House of Representatives last week: ¶ Met and adjourned for three days. ¶ Met again and adjourned for another three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under the U. S. and Rhode Island flags, further back in the line, strode Governor Norman Stanley Case (Brown 1908) surrounded by his staff. Followed many a statesman, jurist and nearly three-score college presidents. There were Cornell's Farrand, Yale's Angell, Union's Day, Rhode Island's Alger ; also Charles Evans Hughes (Brown 1881), Mr. Rockefeller Jr. and President Emeritus William Herbert Perry Faunce, about whom a similar to-do was made 30 years ago when he entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brown Men | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...into the Gatineau hills to "Kingsmere," his country home. There, as with President Hoover beside the rushing Rapidan, Mr. MacDonald found an open hearth, a crackling log fire. Canadians hoped that during the long chat which followed he gave Mr. King pointers concerning President Hoover's reaction to three present causes of friction between Dominion and U. S.: 1) The proposed U. S. agricultural tariffs infuriating to Canada's farmers; 2) Control of liquor smuggling; 3) Allotment of radio wavelengths of which Canadians are sure they have received no fair share. Speech of the Week. At the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No War: No Blockade | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...When Pickett had been sent to the hospital, keepers held a council, wired to Circus Owner John Ringling for advice. Mr. Ringling condemned Black Diamond to death. The keepers tried to feed him poisoned oranges but he was wary. They considered drowning him. Finally they took him. shackled between three other elephants- to a cotton field, chained him to two trees. Hans Nagel, keeper of the Houston Zoo, was elected executioner. He approached to close range, raised a big-game rifle, fired. Black Diamond howled, tried to jerk away. Nagel fired again, could not penetrate the elephant's skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Black Diamond | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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