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...field and the other on the further section of the grandstand and retain one's composure or peace of mind. But it is extremely difficult to retain the aforesaid state when the enemy is desecrating the final station with foreign spikes while the local representatives, by an unkind turn of fate, remain fastened to the various way-stations along the route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

...Horn ... the flood of biographies comes pouring in out of the publishers' presses. Chaliapin and Bismarck ... Napoleon and His Women Friends ... Robespierre and Uncle Joe Cannon ... with every anecdote that ever murmured about them in five point type. All the state secrets the private correspondence, the family albums, the unkind word and the billet doux that was lost before it could be committed to the flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REST ARE IN PEACE | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...seems an unkind fate which will leave his chair vacant at our approaching twenty-fifth anniversary. We shall miss him increasingly as years pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt '03 and James Jackson '04, Friends of the Late Payson Dana '04, Concur in Paying Tribute | 11/10/1927 | See Source »

...UNKIND STAR-Nancy Hoyt- Knopf ($2.50). Two girls were born on the same night, under the same star, to life on erratic earth. Lilias Rabenstein was the daughter of an ambassador whose wife, the most charming lady of Europe, was intimate with the American mother of Cintra Amory. The two girls, growing up together in the flowery atmosphere of pre-War Europe, grew up differently. Lilias, a remote and nervous comet, began her life by being engaged to Franz Czarany who later veered through an Italian milky way to exert an astral influence on Cintra. She, a steadier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whiz, Bang, Sputter | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...critic not unkind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to Usher in Gala Commencement | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

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