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Leader Curry came down to the reception room, seated himself in the big "boss" chair of Tweed, Croker, Murphy, Olvany. "This feels good," he purred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Same Old Tammany | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Meanwhile Queen Mary occupied herself by buying seven handbags and two children's pails with shovels. Six of the bags were tweed covered, to match tweed skirts; the seventh was a beige traveling bag, lined with oil silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wise Wales | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down over his bespectacled hazel eyes. His black, curly hair was awry and needed cutting. His hands were in his pockets, with one nickel, one dime and one quarter. Other people of other descriptions were milling and bumping around him with other gaits. Traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Tweed; the Boss in Politics" (continued) Mr. Pigors, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...Tweed; the Boss in Politics" (continued) Mr. Pigors, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

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