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Dates: during 1920-1929
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. . . Who wants to ride the rods or who does? The motorcar marked the passing of the trainride-stealing American bum, with his curious lingo. That there have never been a dozen masters in this profession is proved by the confusion of terms. To the next generation, the argot of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slow Train | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Golf gave one of Dr. Horace Gray's (Chicago) middle-aged patients a pain in the back. Then another patient came in with the same sort of ache at the base of his spine. And shortly a third. But the last was a polo player. The three were enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Golf & Polo Backaches | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Chief financial figure in Kolster is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels, board chair man. Chief radio expert is Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Patent War | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

This is precisely what we took Professor Rogers to mean in our editorial defense of his speech published on Monday. It was impossible that a man of his ability as a teacher, and of his true magnanimity in conduct, toward others, could have any other ultimate meaning. Yet we confess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Anatomy of Snobbery | 6/7/1929 | See Source »

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