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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made available, because the Government has forbidden the importation from England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin, has published two monumental books on the subject, but it is almost impossible to find copies of them...
...voted for the women's emancipation, six voted against it. In St. Paul, Minn., next May the General Assembly must either ratify or veto this direct departure from Saint Paul who said "Let your women keep silence. ..." The Women. The chief Lydia Pankhursts of the Presbyterian church are two, Mrs. Fred Smith Bennett and Miss Margaret E. Hodge. Mrs. Bennett has long been a cheerful gracious opponent of "silly conventions" and she has long presided over the Presbyterian Council of Women. "Why," she asks, "do women think they must wash on Mondays? In the same way why are people...
...well, was sold for $75, hauled a hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained him on Ireland's oldtime Fairyhouse course and when the horses ran that year at Aintree it was Moifaa, the castaway, that won. And then there was Master Robert, winner in 1924, who used to pull a plow. This year...
...printed, numerous compositors set portions of an article that were "meaningless fragments" to them. Only Printer Cuneo and his chief assistant had been added to the circle of those who knew the truth. Under the lynx-eyes of private detectives the fragments were assembled and plates made. During the two weeks required to run off 1,850,000 copies of the magazine.* the detectives stood at their posts; at night the precious plates rested securely in a safe. Late one afternoon, five men with sawed-off shotguns robbed the Cuneo plant of $8,000, but not the "mystery" plates. Then...
...opera. Hope Hampton with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (TIME, Dec. 31). Richard Dix also takes his singing seriously. And last week it was pressagented that Charles Ray, 38, is cultivating his high tenor voice for a career. According to one Alfredo Martino, a Manhattan teacher. Cinemactor Ray takes two lessons a day when in town. At present he is touring with a vaudeville act in which he sings and plays the piano. It is a comedy act but now the famed Ray grin is just a mask for a great and earnest purpose. He practices for opera...