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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans (Queen Victoria's husband was one) muttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Queen Victoria laughed at his jokes "'till her gums showed." (This before she married a German and, in sentiment, became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

Professor R. S. Conway, Hulme Professor of Latin In Victoria University, Manchester, England, and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University will give the first of his series of lectures on Virgil this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Its title will be "Man and Nature," and it will be given in Harvard Hall, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. S. Conway Speaks | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...William II, says Author Ludwig, possesses "the gifts of a high-strung nature beyond a doubt." With his incurable, withered arm he should have turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Effeminate War Lord | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Window trimmers, decorating showrooms last week for the Cadillac Spring Salon, teetered around a new motorcar. Salesmen studied its points: plenty of nickel plate; narrow, high radiator; low, elliptical lines; 8-cylinder, V-type motor; 125-in. wheelbase; six body types- roadster, phaeton, coupé, convertible coupé, victoria and sedan. It looked like a Cadillac slightly reduced in size. It was just that-designedly the "companion car to Cadillac." And, like the Cadillac, this new model is being built by President Lawrence P. Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Motor Car | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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