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...best things in life are free" came the words, and the Vagabond felt relieved. A worthy successor to "Horses, Horses, Horses", "Yes, We Have No Bananas", and "Barney Google...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...First Auto. When, in 1895, the automobile started to run the horse out, Hank Armstrong (Russell Simpson) found himself hitched to the stable cause, while his son, Bob (Charles E. Mack*), trailed the new-fangled enemy. Only after Barney Oldfield (who appears in the film) has roared over a race track at the unprecedented speed of 60 miles per hour, and Sloe Eyes, his last mare, has taken her final earthly hurdle, does the old horse-lover give in to the conquering gas-buggy. By that time his son has grown romantic under the influence of the heroine (Patsy Ruth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...year ago, Gertrude Ederle arrived at Cape Griz Nez, France, began to eat many an egg, many a steak. Later, as everyone knows, she swam the English Channel while the band on her tugboat played Barney Google...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Poor Ederle | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

February 13--"Some Causes of Bladder Trouble." (To men only.) Dr. J. Dellinger Barney '00, Assistant Professor of Gemto-Urinary Surgery, Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/5/1927 | See Source »

Paradoxically Barney Barnato, who feared neither man nor the wild beasts of Africa, was bedeviled by two maladies: 1) a fantastic psychic dread that he might lose his millions and have to peddle in the streets again; 2) an incurable eczema which prickled him unbearably in warm weather. One day, as he was journeying from Africa to England, he leaped from the ship, drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dumping Diamonds | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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