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...President Coolidge authorized Washington Community Chest official to solicit contributions from Federal employes. Hitherto this privilege has been extended only to the Salvation Army and the Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...among all the Greek sponge-divers of Tarpon Springs last week, jovial young Demosthenes Kananis, who has been less than a year in the new world, was unquestioned hero. With covert glances the girls admired his broad shoulders and deep chest, remembering how, with a shout, he had slipped up from the deeps of Spring Bayou, holding high in his hand the dripping bronze cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Demosthenes the Fortunate | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...right. Both pretty and without inhibitions, she tunefully remarked: "I Want to be Bad," illustrating her desire with stamps, wind-ups, moues, and fetching wriggles. When she fell in love, she urged her inamorato to "Take good care of yourself, you belong to me," beating him gently on the chest. So did the audience belong to her, though she abused her property by making such cynical comments as this, to a recalcitrant lover: "You can't have children by telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Uncle Bill gave little Johnny a chest of tools for Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stillman Panorama | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...threat of epidemic. To the newspapers they went with their cleverly evasive advertisements to allure the flu-fearful. Such an advertisement was that for Japanese Oil (EN-AR-CO), which under the arousing headline FLU EPIDEMIC described the oil's use for head colds, sore throats, chest colds. Perhaps even more persuasive were advertisements for Turpo, Nozol, Harrison's Heart O'Orange, Calotabs, Mu-Sol-Dent, Bulgarian Herb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu Fear | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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