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Candidate Hoover, the Administration's busy but not supremely happy Beaver Man, waded into a trout-stream in Pennsylvania and for three days indulged pensively in the Sport of Presidents. He used the subtle, sporting fly, however, instead of the homely, almost infallible worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Res Publicae | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Pink Boll Worm bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Stop, Look, Listen | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...been six years buried, Enrico Caruso would not have enjoyed so large a burst of posthumous fame. The Caruso corpse, however, has not moldered in the earth, nor has any worm yet tunneled the golden passage of its throat. Like the late Nikolai Lenin (among all famed contemporaries the only other one) the body of the great singer has been subjected to a process of embalmment which will preserve the natural contour of his face and figure for, it is alleged, 100 years. At first, when he was put to rest in the Caruso chapel in the Naples Cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mummy | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...save her from the worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...simply darling!" Thus exclaimed one of a series of advertisements in fashionable women's magazines. The face in the copy was Harry Langdon's. His business of being simply darling consists of three gestures: 1) staring blankly like a little boy who has just found half a worm in the apple he is eating; 2) picking his teeth with his thumb and index finger; 3) waddling as if his pants were about to fall down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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