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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Does anyone know where this Parmalee College is that Red Grange goes to in "One Minute to Play"? I don't play football. But then Claxton hasn't been having such good teams recently. And I can walk beneath the trees with the girl friend almost as well as Grange. Of course he has played around with ice and knows how to treat that when it appears. Yet I can build a very good bonfire, and I like to talk to presidents, especially when they chew tobacco. That makes for community of interest. If anyone finds out where Parmalee...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

...morning after the day before. The President arose earlier than usual, took a long walk on the streets of downtown Washington, returned to the White House, ate a hearty breakfast. Then in his office in an easy chair in front of the tall south windows he read newspapers and election telegrams, placidly. Messengers came in with more despatches; he picked them up mechanically, smoking slowly. The expression on his face was as emotionless as that of a man thoughtfully perusing the telephone directory. Then William Randolph Hearst came in for luncheon, suggested that the President go to California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Nov. 15, 1926 | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...craft now ready to be scrapped. . . . Surely Japan is not so poor that she cannot pay this sum to maintain her present fighting strength! . . . The dawn of our modern naval history has been glorious. The high noon of Japanese sea power must be worthy of our naval heroes who walk with Count Togo through the twilight of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Sea Noon | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...said Mr. McManus, "can walk home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sweetest | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...colonial Mansion, soon to house an ancient matron, ghosts will walk. For the Widow now has skeletons within her closet. Since that famous gentleman who built the excellent tradition of the Widow's has departed, the Lady of Learning has waned. Indeed, more than a new carapace is needed--body, soul are requsite. For even a tutoring school must have both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIDOW MOVES | 10/7/1926 | See Source »

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