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MY HEART AND MY FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Heart & Flesh | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

In Geneva, a mob of 5,000 took possession of the city. They smashed about $40,000 worth of plate glass and merchandise in their fellow-citizens' shop windows. They badly damaged the Palace of the League of Nations, to which the U. S. does not belong. Police protected the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sacco Aftermath | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

The inimitable, irrepressible, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vive l'Audace! | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Is Zat So? is a slapsticky adaptation of James Gleason & Richard Taber's Odyssey of a dim-witted pugilist and his pessimistic trainer. A grinning, guffawing, snickering audience testified that the film version is likely to prove as successful as the stage original.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 30, 1927 | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

A curious company of men shuffled and smartcracked their way in to a dinner one evening last week at the Astor Hotel, Manhattan. There were enough of them to have raised the census at least a decimal point, and their aggregate income would have given Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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