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...quizzical, mocking, and asks if he is mad. Behind this look is the tale of a man who went to an insane asylum and found happiness. He was not sure that he was mad; sure he did not love his wife. His father-in-law, a successful manufacturer of brushes, thought that not loving his wife was proof that he was mad; that he hated the brush factory further evidence; had him committed. Indulging his artistic dreams in the asylum he painted a masterpiece, was proudly extricated by the brush man; hated home life; went back to the asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...account of how Daniel Richard Crissinger and Warren Gamaliel Harding played together as members of Ohio gangs in boyhood. The Marion Star referred to is one of a string of small Ohio newspapers acquired in the past few years by "two unknown young men"-Roy D. Moore & Louis H. Brush.† Banker Frank A. Vanderlip of Manhattan got himself in trouble by suspecting publicly that the Messrs. Moore & Brush obtained the Marion Star at an exorbitant price from its onetime owner, Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924 et seq.). Among the Messrs. Moore & Brush's other newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Father-in-law of Novelist Katherine Brush, author of Glitter and Little Sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...does it not ? During the last 20 years women's fashions have undone all the evil they did during 500 years. If men during the next 20 years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable buttons before their dress is complete. Fashions are no mean part of civilization. But report them as news, not for the purpose of enabling your readers to wear the latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...explorations will be conducted along the Niger River which flows through varied areas of brush and mountainous country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESEARCH EXPEDITION GOES TO FRENCH SUDAN | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

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