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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just walk away from the dancing, this way, across the tennis courts. The stars are out, aren't they? Why, I can carry it. Well. The pines look dark and cool there, don't they? Yes, but I think it's more like a poem by Sand-burg: "In the dusk, in the cool tombs." Tombs of what? Oh, tombs of all the summer boys like you, who say so much they don't mean...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...these little points Editor Renaud was sharp in retort. "It's absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Renaud's World | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Terrible Things! Ensconced at the Ritz, last week, Grand Duke Alexander said, in fluent but slightly stilted English: "A proletarian visited me this morning. Yes, a proletarian-the clothes very rough and dirty! He had just returned from Russia. He told me terrible things! . . . But I look-the Imperial Family looks-for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Three Grand Dukes | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Britten is a self-important ass, colleagues who have known him in the House for 15 years have yet to find it out. He is blunt, yes, and self-confident, and a bit crude at times in a blustery Chicago way. But he has never been blown up about himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Britten to Britain | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Yes, I have finished them," said "Papa" Joffre contentedly, "Only the other day I finished signing-initialing-the last of the 800 pages. I have signed each one. So there can be no mistake when I am dead, and they are published. I give the documents, the facts. Others may form their own opinions from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Backgammon at Louveciennes | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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