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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have been much fairer for you to have headed this under its proper descriptive caption rather than taking a slam at chocolates. It is all right for you to be original in your headings but please don't stray from the truth...

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

...insanity. The coroner devotes the rest of his life to guarding Arielle. Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify and help to prove The inscrutable mission of the million years, In -which each incident is destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...should not have been printed tanent the raising of a ten million dollar athletic funds but on the following day President Lowell, after what was probably a frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there was any truth in the story at all. Boston correspondents would be quite justified in asking Harvard authorities either to make up their minds or withdraw from such vulgar activities as publicity. New Yorker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Same Old Song | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

...Ibsen's plays this seemed to us to run the most smoothly, to give the most semblance of a real slice of life; sordid, yes, but still smacking more of some possible truth than most of the products of this despondent Norseman. Other Ibsen dramas have always left the impression of extreme morbidity, with a moral to be learned, but shown in a most unconvincing tale. This tale stands cross examination better. All this is due, no doubt, to Miss Yurka's presentation. In less skilled hands. "The Wild Duck" could easily be produced as no more than another Ibsen...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/21/1929 | See Source »

...split-up, with rights. Hiram Walker is, of course, famed as whiskey-maker. U. S. interest in the split-up was keen in Missouri, whose Congressman Leonidas Dyer recently purchased Hiram Walker stock without knowing the nature of the product and sold, precipitately, at a loss, when the horrid truth became evident to him. Congressman Dyer talked of suing the Manhattan Curb to get back his lost money. Had he not been so hasty in disposing of his "tainted" certificates, he might have had a profit on his transaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Split-tips | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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