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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern Europe unusual quiet is a sure sign of political activity. Early last week the streets of Bucharest were still as a Puritan Sabbath. Shop fronts were steel-shuttered, cafes were deserted save for an occasional worried waiter, moodily wiping the empty table tops. Foreign correspondents, smelling trouble, gravitated toward the Bucharest telegraph office. It was closed, and not going to open. As the day advanced, groups of soldiers in steel helmets and khaki appeared on the street corners, leaning against lamp posts, smoking cigarets when their officers were not looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Fantastic Colonel | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

They hung a green flag with a green star in a white square in the Louis XVI room of Manhattan's Hotel Manger last week. About 150 delegates gathered there and chatted in a language which no bellboy, waiter, clerk could understand. The men wore green neckties, the women green enamel stars. It was the 22nd annual congress of the Esperanto Association of North America, the organization for fostering and teaching the "universal lan-guage" which "promises sacred peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kunvenintajn Esperantistojn | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Waiter! There's a horse shoe in my soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Round-Up, Ground Up | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Frau Anna | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Arthur S. Draper, an editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective. Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns was present as a smiling but non-communicative buffer. One man. seeking an audience but turned away, sent up by a waiter to the Coolidge suite a silver salt shaker but no explanation. Mr. Coolidge was puzzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Business | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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