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...with acid the acrid mother-in-law. Regina Wallace and Juliette Crosby also give meritorious performances in a play that has a place in every home. George Kelly has written a more human document than his satire, The Torch Bearers. The play's constant humor gets under the vest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Notwithstanding Senator Johnson's popularity in certain circles, his chance of securing the Republican Nomination appears a trifle doubtful. Unfortunately he does not manufacture vest-pocket automobiles or inexpensive tractors, and even if he is a farmer, not all voters are farmers. Likewise President Coolidge, whatever may be his faults, has a certain cool stability which California's orator lacks. In fact the latter's most stable characteristic through his long and varied career seems to have the joyous virulence with which he attacks his enemy of the moment. Since he will probably not be wafted into the White House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WILD, WEST WIND | 11/1/1923 | See Source »

Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena carry the Philippine politics more or less in their political vest-pockets. Quezon is a Spanish-Filipino, fiery and magnetic Osmena a Chinese-Filipino,. coolheaded, sphinxlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Magpie and Martinet? | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar a pain in the portion of his person immediately below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of Slapstick | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

Wisconsin newspaper men put out a book called La Follette's Winning of Wisconsin. The Philadelphia Public Ledger comments: " Either La Follette won Wisconsin or the state is in the wrong vest pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Government | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

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