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...Done by me, the great klaliff of this province, in this holy glavern, on the weird day of the woeful week, of the dreadful month, of the bloody moon, in the weeping year of the klan (L. V. 1). This 16th day of March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Gentlemen from Indiana | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...melodrama have been woven some sharp moments of suspense. The second and the third acts have many moments in which the edge of the seat is necessary. But the dialog is fearful. It is full of the "Then you have been his woman" type of line and bears a woeful semblance to a mass of cinema subtitles. Carroll McComas, the principal actress, strives valliantly to bring the piece to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

About Rome there is much woeful wagging of heads. Vatican expenses have mounted. This year's income is reported already expended. What the Vatican's total income is has never been revealed since 1870, when the temporalities were confiscated by Italy. Pius IX (died 1878) left $6,000,000 of income-bearing capital. Of this sum his successor Leo XIII (died 1903) lost some $2,000,000 by poor investments, yet recouped himself by administrative economies. Pius XI's income-producing wealth is more than $7,000,000. But most of the annual income is derived from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican Notes: Jul. 26, 1926 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...made, but that there is still need for much improvement. The blocking was especially good, Slagle and Dignan having plenty of time to get off their punts, which averaged 47 yards. In the opening up of holes some improvement also was seen, but on the defense there was a woeful lack of it, and in the final quarter especially the Southerners reaped a harvest on off-tackle plays. An innovation in practice was made with the taking of individual pictures. Each player is to be photographed while tackling and interfering, and by this means his faults, it is expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROPER SHIFTS LINE RADICALLY | 10/14/1925 | See Source »

...bread-bowls fly at woeful rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meal Time Riots in Old Harvard Commons in 1819 Led to Withdrawal of Sophomore Class---Food and China Thrown | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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