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...contact with moral pitch visually or orally is defiling, and to sit through one suggestive play, except for the purpose of protesting to newspaper, police department, priest or minister in an effort to stir up indignation against it, is to consent to defilement. This is a matter in which whoever does not condemn, condones, and to condone immorality is a ghastly business for the citizens of any Christian country to be engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Vogues | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...bridges was destined soon to disappear. Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. had sold his property to an unannounced purchaser. Agent in the transaction was the firm of Charles D. Barney & Co., Manhattan brokers. Probable real purchaser was Pennroad Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad holding company. Whoever the new buyer, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's Ole Massa had certainly sold it down the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford to Penn | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...contest will be officially opened by either Frank Crumit or Helen Kane, star of "Good Boy", both of whom are in town. Whoever of these two acts in the capacity of official starter will stand in the middle of Holyoke Street and wave a crimson and white Harvard banner at the sign of which the two men will dash to their respective windows and begin their musical listening duel to see who is the first to go lunatic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Banner Waved in Holyoke Street to Start Students' Phonograph Listening Marathon--Helen Kane May Officiate | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...ransacked. Silver, jewelry and securities to the value of 50,000 francs were gone-not much in the U. S., scarcely $2,000, but much to grizzled Joseph Joffre. When excited gendarmes came, the Marshal, no longer his fat self of younger days but very thin and trembly, exclaimed, "Whoever burglarized my house was no Frenchman. That, I could not believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Poor Papa Joffre | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: "The first man-child ever born a king," as TIME puts it, probably was not Alphonso XIII, but one of the old Persian or Parthian kings, whose name I am unable to remember, although you, doubtless, can find it. The monarch referred to may have been Chosroes, but, whoever he was, he was born some time after the death of his father, whose demise made imperative the selection of a new king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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