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His Sing Sing, a name which chimes fearfully in the ears of malefactors, which calls up to all U. S. citizens a vision of bleak grey prison walls, is not a "bad" prison. From the Indian "ossine ossine"? "stone upon stone"?came its name, appropriate to the old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stone Upon Stone | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Marry the Man. Playwright Jean Archibald's comedy has a sexy headstart in its subject, companionate marriage, but it soon loses ground and does not come in a winner. Mollie Jeffries thinks that she and her Gregory will always enjoy a paradoxical combination of freedom and affection. But Gregory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

While choirs in a thousand naves of Christian churches throughout Manhattan lifted their voices in the ancient glad Noels, while bells in the towers quivered with anticipation of midnight chimes to herald the eternal rebirth of the Babe, Pastor Holmes took the platform.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: King of the Jews | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Meanwhile work was being started to remove the chimes presented by Mr. Rockefeller to his Park Avenue Baptist Church from that church's tower. Residents of the expensive apartment neighborhood complain that chimes disturb their Sabbath sleep.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rockefeller Towers | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Cornell has $2,000,000 women's residential halls in construction, excavations for men's dormitories, a new water supply, a new bridge over a gorge, two new bells among its chimes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Athens and Owls | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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