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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unless you continue to print more of Mary Elizabeth Robinn's letters and stop using the word "Manhattan" I will stop my subscription. . . . That disappointed virgin Robinn must need a mate to soften her perennial ire against the Prince of Wales. As far as I can remember (and that is some two years back) she has been scolding you about the Prince's baggy eyes, or is it trousers? You need no humorous column as long as you sow your LETTERS with such luscious tidbits of outraged virginity. If you stop my subscription because of the above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan's shield, Brennan fired a revolver at Krainen, killing him. Last week, during the long day preceding the hour for his electrocution, Brennan kept asking his guard: 'Is there any news yet from Albany?' But I sent no word. He was electrocuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...months are slipping by and nothing has been done no word has come forth in answer to individual inquiries. Many of us expected to be greeted on our return to Cambridge in the fall with defined plans for such a memorial service. It is now December. His church pays tribute to him tomorrow. Next week the CRIMSON will issue its memorial edition, but this can in no way be considered as an expression of the undergraduate both as a whole. It is the CRIMSON's modest but sincere token of its deep respect and affection for the late President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE ADMINISTRATION | 12/11/1926 | See Source »

...well in the 18th Century. It brings better prices now because, in addition to its literary quality, its sentimentalism, its triteness and the excellence of its technical effects, there hovers over it a formal and elegant carnality which the modern mind likes to encounter. Perhaps carnality is the wrong word; perhaps you cannot apply it, for instance, to Lawrence's picture of Miss Mary Moulton Barrett for which Sir Joseph Duveen gave 74,000 guineas; perhaps you cannot call this pure and lovely miss, standing with round arms pressed to round bosoms, a storm behind her head, animation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Pinkie | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Washington, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, gave orders for Commander Bartlett to stand by and then, as the hours passed without any word from Lieutenant Bartlett, commanded 24 Navy vessels-a battleship, cruisers, destroyers, a gunboat, a tug, a storeship and the minesweepers-to drop all other duties, report to the Cincinnati and fan out over the Caribbean on a search immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Oil Hogs | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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