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...stands for Parliament, she helps his campaign by many a speech. When he sits there, she goes to her seaside cottage and writes novels. In appearance she suggests what Helen Wills Moody will look like at 35. Other novels: The Romantic Woman, Jane-Our Stranger, Three Pilgrims and A Tinker, Flamingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Eyed Woman | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...Goldsboro, N. C., Tinker Blackman, who can neither read nor write, was arrested for forging checks on his grandfather, equally illiterate. Forger Blackman secured some one else to witness while he made his grandfather's "mark" on checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Size?lack of it?is the distinguishing Austin feature. A tall owner (6 ft. 3 in. or more) lying under the car to tinker with its vitals would extend from wheel to wheel; a large horse (over 1,130 Ib.) would have a weight advantage in a collision. The full car length is 10 ft., width 4 ft. 4 in. Slipping easily through traffic, turning on a 16-ft. radius, parked wherever ten feet of parking space are available, the Austin offers obvious advantages with respect to handling in heavy traffic. Its sponsors also maintain that it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 28 Inches Shorter | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the large lecture room of Fogg; Professor Chauncey B. Tinker of Yale will give a lecture on the subject, "Eighteenth Century English Painting as Illustrated in the Current Loan Exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR TINKER LECTURES TODAY ON ENGLISH PAINTING | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Open to the public, this lecture will give an opportunity to followers of art to fully understand the treasures now on exhibition. Professor Tinker is a visiting professor from Yale and lectured here this past semester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR TINKER LECTURES TODAY ON ENGLISH PAINTING | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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