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In Spain there once lived a dissolute nobleman named Don Juan Tenorio who, a trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the marble effigy of an elderly commandant he had killed. Eerily enough the effigy accepted, appeared stark white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don Giovanni | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Preparations. Ishbel MacDonald, roseate daughter and hostess of the Prime Minister, was discovered buying apparel for the trip. Laborite feelings were reassured by news that she and her father intended to live from three suitcases apiece-he trusting to luck for golf clubs if they should be usable, she upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Voyage Exploratory | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

WRITTEN by a reporter of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Evening American, this latest of novels on the life of a modern scribe has very little to recommend it. The story starts nowhere, gets now-where. The style is tabloid, frequently illustrated with actual newspaper stories of the...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: Tabloids | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

The investor in an Investment Trust, in effect, turns his money over to a group of experts who have the advantage of a thorough market knowledge and of handling sums ranging from three to five hundred million dollars. Such an investor is letting men like Simon William Straus, the Seligmans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Investment Trusts | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Having died these four deaths urbanely -and being in fact still politically defunct last week-M. le Senateur Joseph Caillaux rode on through the blinding fog, trusting, as rich men will, to a harassed chauffeur who had been told to hurry.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nine-Lived Caillaux | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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