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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different in any material way from hundreds of thousands of others from Walla Walla to New York." He weaves a fabric of enchanted mediocrity about the venerable Roosevelt freehold, "Sagamore" (Oyster Bay, L. I.), in a book that is a medley of anecdotage about his clan's everyday affairs, many of which have been set down in his father's letters or elsewhere. The burial of pets, camping, meals, games, sports are all dealt with in a fair approximation of the traditionally wholesome Rooseveltian manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Roosevelts | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...tranquility . . . calm tropical seas'"); 10) Azure ("sedate, reserved . . . slightly gloomy"); 11) Nocturne ("night shadows, despair, underworld"); 12) Purplehaze ("pronounced cooling effect"); 13) Fleur-de-lys ("pomp, dignity"); 14) Amaranth ("approaching sensuality and abandon"); 15) Caprice ("hilarious pink, carnival moods"); 16) Inferno ("burning buildings, panic, anarchy"); 17) Argent ("grey, everyday life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eastman Colors | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...explaining that a pleasant, fluent style can make excellent reading out of what is essentially true. And this is what Mr. Walling has done in "Murder at the Keyhole". He has created characters of a really living and vital type, the sort of people one meets in everyday life, and it is this fact more than anything else that places "Murder at the Keyhole" distinctly above most...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: Keyhole Mystery | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

...placing its experts and the benefit of its research at the disposal of the group of international experts on international law to meet at Cambridge late in February, the Faculty of the Harvard Law School is in line with a growing tendency to give scholarship everyday usefulness. The CRIMSON commented recently upon the way in which Professor Chafee, speaking against capital punishment, demonstrated the usefulness of a professor in a legislative body. It will be also remembered that Professor Frankfurter took a prominent part in clarifying the legal situation involved in the Sacco-Venzetti case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKING TO HARNESS | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

This evening the Union will again demonstrate that it is not only a pool hall, an eating club, and an everyday club, but a really truly night club as well. The successful series of cabarets so far held in the Living Room terminates tonight in what promises to be the biggest whoopee of the season, for special effort has been made to obtain an unusually well known young lady for hostess. The management shows its usual good judgment and happy fortune by the selection of the Empress Josephine for the all important position. Not only does she add the touch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG AND DANCE | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

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