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Love Me and the World Is Mine exhibits a bafflingly total naivete, a gay and unblushing sentimentality such as appears often in fairy tales but seldom in cinema. Agnes Thule, the youngest, hence the last, hence the ultimate Thule, falls in love with one Captain Von Vigilati, as does he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Last month, Tammany Hall, famed Manhattan political lair, was sold for $700,000. Last fortnight, the vigilant New York World reported the property resold for $800,000. None cried "Graft!" But Tammanyites asked, "Who profited?" Joseph P. Day, whose reputation as a realtor in and about Manhattan is no less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Tammany | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Dr. Garfield's smile was gone when he said ominously: "Men of good will and high purpose [at official parleys, such as the current one at Geneva] are striving with might and main for that which is good, but their councils are menaced. They are opposed by the sinister attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rollins Boom | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

¶ Outside the schoolroom which serves as the President's Rapid City executive office runs a corridor. In the corridor is a bench on which sit those awaiting a presidential audience. On the bench one morning last week sat a Wyoming dirt farmer, his wife, his daughter. From ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Last Saturday a rough and tough Princeton team set foot on the hallowed soil of Cambridge. Nine men in old clothes filed out--of the CRIMSON building with clubs over their shoulders to meet the strangers from New Jersey. It was the first conflict between the warriors of the two...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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