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...patrician of the Treasury Department. It is in the grand manner intellectually not to worry, not to cross bridges before rivers are reached. This Andrew Mellon never does. To his ability to put off until tomorrow that which is not today's concern, his intimates attribute his unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries are dead or retired after lives which in few cases approached his for fullness or success. "There's luck in leisure," he said last autumn when newsgatherers importuned him for a political utterance. As a political sidestep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Res Publicae | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the major Chinese factions of the North and South had given occasion for Japan's threatened intervention by suddenly renewing with full vigor, last week, their perennial civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Big War | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Harvard might be tempted merely to sigh contemplatively, and cock one eye on the tablets in the locker house that once announced records as good as the best. Young blood, young vigor, seriousness in sports . . . all very well, for those who still play with the zest of youth; here at Harvard, a tired savoir faire is said to have taken their place. Harvard might, indeed, merely sigh, or even yawn, if this were true, but, sadly enough for the erudite gentlemen who delight in classifying the University and all its contents with one clever phrase, not all the instinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEEDY | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...first part of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps as played in Philadelphia last week by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux. Having so spoken, the bony lady left the auditorium as did many another ignorant Philadelphia music listener. Those who kept their seats applauded with vigor. When all who wanted to leave had done so, Mr. Monteux continued his conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Stravinsky | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Though Author Gribble was said to have supervised the direction of the present production, many faults could be found in the manner of its production. The leading members of the cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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