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...fond of plover eggs. He drank champagne from the slipper of Actress Pauline Markham, who had a "voice of velvet and the lost arms of Venus of Milo." He tried to drive a coach-and-four through the doorway of a Paris house, putting himself in the hospital for a month. Several times, in dead of night, he raced along the boulevards?stark naked in the driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...court, Miss Nichols wore a mink coat and a velvet toque. Abie's Irish Rose has earned for her a personal profit of some $6,000,000. As a movie (Paramount), it is still running in the U. S. As a play, it opened last week in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...debt. His election bets were calculated to pull him out of a bad hole. Necessarily, he was slow about taking up his IOU's. The trouble was, he had been slow that way before. His tongue could be as sharp in debt as it could be smooth in velvet. The creditors grew restive. They persuaded George McManus, whom Rothstein trusted, to call him over for a "creditors' meeting" one evening last month. Rothstein got the call in the little restaurant and started over to the Park Central Hotel where McManus was registered as "George Richards," in Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Room 349 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...evening dress was velvet, and 'er firzzy 'air was gold...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

Rode before even the Tenno His Imperial Highness Prince Kanin, Honorary Executive of the Enthronement.* Came third the Empress, wearing an Occidental court gown of blue velvet, with large blue picture hat-her eyes cast modestly and fixedly down. The Tenno's brother, H.I.H. Chichibu, the heir presumptive, rode in a fourth carriage beside Princess Setsu, his bride. (TIME, Oct. 8). Brought up the Imperial rear, the Princes of the Blood, the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, great Admiral Togo, and hundreds of correspondents.* As the Imperial train of eleven chuffed out of Tokyo 101 guns boomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Emperor Enthroned | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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