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...careful, upright handwriting was perhaps the first sign the clear concise statements complete the portrait. Best of all is the sentence describing the writer's visage the face with character stamped so strongly upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELF PORTRAITURE | 6/8/1928 | See Source »

...even the Irish caretaker is stirring. Memories of his late irascible father haunt him as he climbs to his old room which is filled with prep-school photos and trophies and the heavy perfume of flowers. In the sudden electricity, the most beautiful girl he ever saw sits bolt upright in the middle of his old bed, and orders him out of the house. He returns next day to find her vanished. But Author Miller can be relied upon to make out of her not the psychic fantasy of Bentham's weary mind, but the heroine of an excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: No Inhibitions | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: D'Herelle v. Cholera | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...down the back like the puffy blouses worn by the women who rode in them. Then the later Packards, with the lined hood that still distinguishes them, appeared; gigantic limousines, touring cars like towers, and snorting red racers. The windshields were rimmed with brass; the men who sat bolt upright behind them wore alpaca dustcoats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Death of Packard | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...cases for a potent oil corporation; 2) his wife knows how to mix cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells it swiftly, stiffly. He has also written eleven novels, five volumes of short stories, six matchless yarns about Mr. Tutt (funny lawyer), three law books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambition | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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