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...eleven dinners progressed many anecdotes of him were told???but nowhere the same stories; in California there were certain tales, in London others, still others in the Rand, and the whole story of his life is so vast that it can hardly be brought together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unique | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...discoverer, Captain George Vancouver, in 1792, in accordance with time honored custom, to Mount Tacoma, on the plea that the latter was the aboriginal name. The rank and file of the people of Tacoma are sincere and honorable?a typical cross section of the genus Americanus. They have been told???and are told daily? that the Indian name was Mount Tacoma, and they are ready to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mountain | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...that summer has come and gone, the truth about the summer resorts can be told???at least from the financial side. Northern New England resort keepers, it seems, have not wholly enjoyed the summer months. For their tribulations there have been many and various causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glum Hosts | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these murderers, such an innocuous naivete about their mental processes, that much may be forgiven them. Stories, graphic, succinct, powerful, well-told???quite without sentimentality, sweetness or light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthony Dare* | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

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