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Premier Poincaré, the great War President of France, one of the whitest whiskered of European statesmen, discovered last week that in the secret code of the French Foreign Office he is referred to as Barbichon (meaning, in boudoir "conversation, "The Little Bearded One" or "Little Whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dear Lulu | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White Club because it admitted to its tournaments, on equal terms with nobility's whitest cockades, such raw cuts of butchers' meat as that which now faced him across the net. Wetzel said nothing. He was so angry now that he could not speak, nor could he see the ball. Nobility won the set 9-7 and changed courts for the third, remarking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Flower | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...conductors, appeared for the last time this season as leader of the New York Symphony at the fourth concert for young people. Genial, loquacious, he said good-by to his audience, told its members that when they were still freezing in New York he would be wearing the whitest of flannels in Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Magazine | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

President-General Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook addressed them: "It is only an absurdly small minority who live and disport themselves where the lights are whitest. . . . There need be no fear about social conditions in our republic these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: D.A.R. | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...speeches, was born with a funnel in his mouth. A deplorable circumstance which his father had in vain tried to remedy. And then came the storm which blew Henry out to the Pacific coast, drinking as he went. Of course he fell in love with the "whitest girl in the world", and, taking her heart in his hand, he dragged her after him to the dregs of a Chinese city--6, 560 miles! There "midst horrid shapes, and shrieks and sights unholy" the battle for purity took place a veritable wrestling match. Then came the long hard road back...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/6/1923 | See Source »

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