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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Al Marsters suffered what looked to spectators like a twisted ankle in his Yale game, he had really hurt his back, was out for the season. Copying his injured friend's high-kneeing stride. Bill Morton showed that there is more than one way to get a bear by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Critic Huneker's day was already dead. The shades of Europe's mauve decade had become old-fashioned memories; Huneker's men of the hour were but ghosts. It is significant that not a single subject of these selected essays was a U. S. citizen. "Essentially and inescapably civilized" is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

His more violent critics claim that Author Cabell's embroidered style serves to conceal a vacuum. They will therefore not be much interested to learn that in his latest book he announces what would seem to be his retirement: ". . . The Way of Ecben has appeared to its writer a thesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

If a sophomore in a U. S. women's college were to write the story of her life the world would pay some little attention?women's colleges and the world's attention being what they are. Yet 25 years ago Sophomore Helen Keller achieved world fame with her Story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

One learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mencken's Huneker | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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