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...exuberant chord progressions of Brother George Gershwin, the deliberately bad or complex rhymes of Brother Ira. Nancy's Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity and reverts to fragile silk hose, mascara, rouge, lipstick, perfume, corsets and eye-strain for her husband's sake. This theme is presented with a truly incredible number of historic wheezes and situations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...four motor car, truck and cycle factories; nine plants for tractors and farm implements; then for six asbestos, corundum, and graphite factories; two locomotive works; 15 machine tool, cash register, and typewriter factories; 24 cement factories; 126 sawmills; 106 woodworking plants; 27 glass factories; 35 spinning mills; 15 woolen mills; 13 clothing factories; 112 shoe factories; 15 paper mills; 56 food products plants. How many billion dollars would be spent on these establishments after 1930 was not announced, nor was the obviously huge compensation which will be returned to Albert Kahn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architects to Russia | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Declaration of Independence | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...ponderous mockery Senator Norris of Nebraska picked up a yellow woolen garment from the tariff exhibit called "Grundy's store" and commenced to declaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Strange Garret | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Majesty the Queen officially opened the annual exhibition of Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild last week. She beamed with pride at the principal exhibit: three soft woolen scarves knit by the busy fingers of Edward of Wales, her eldest, and three other scarves knit by her youngest son Prince George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Notable Knitters | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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