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Last week about 200 young U. S. men, in various sections of the country and of the globe, swore softly or cursed aloud, as was their wont. They were cursing one Walter A. Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Thief | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...chief did not frequent art galleries, nor stand enrapt before a masterpiece, but he did appreciate loveliness?a rose, a stunning woman, a birch tree, a sunset. . . When in romantic and florid terms he was wont to tell of the dream [of a ducal estate in Austria he thought of buying, complete with 'superb art gallery'] ... he always saved the art gallery for the climax, and when he came to that his voice would take on a note almost of reverence as he told of the wonderful gallery and the priceless masterpieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...vain hopes for a Republic. A careful reading of the Premier's speech shows, however, that it is consistent in letter with his former views of South Africa's absolute right to autonomy. In tone the speech was far more Imperial than is Premier Hertzog's wont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Imperial Tone | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...stunned in Signer Mussolini's lap as the Dictator stepped upon the throttle of his racing car and sped toward Rome. That was in 1923. Provincial admirers had bestowed the beast. As she grew into a sleek young lioness, the Duce, intrigued, named her Italia Bella. He is wont to enter her iron barred cage crooning "Italia Mia, . . ." and only twice has she scratched him (TIME, July 12). Recently her sleek flanks grew pendulous. The Fascist press began exultantly to refer to her as Sultana, Italia, and she brought forth three cubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cub Trinity | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders through a marsh of political machination crossed by a sickly stream of uninteresting adultery...

Author: By David WORCESTER ., | Title: The Autumn's Englishmen--Wells and Bennett | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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