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...villages refugee gentry told: "Before we knew it the explosion came and blew out our windows. Glass cut me, and my wife's face was crimson with cuts. . . . Our baby was knocked to the floor and killed by a falling chunk of wood. . . . My son has lost his sight, my daughter was lacerated. . . . Blood was pouring from a dozen wounds in my back made by small pieces of shrapnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: No Bonanza? | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Stale patterns of the kindergarten executed in raw colors by pudgy little fingers that might better have been occupied in making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Fritz's Children | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Coolidge weather kept the visitor near the "chunk stove." When he 'did go out it was to help drive posts for a tent the Secret Service men erected near the house, to stroll up the road with Mrs. Coolidge to watch son John pitch horseshoes with the neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 25, 1924 | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

...cold waters of the Charles closed over the bodies of eight crew men and a coxswain yesterday. But the men quickly rose, reached shore, and set out for the Newell boathouse, while Coach Stevens took charge of the shell, which had been stove in by a stray chunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OARSMEN GET COLD BATH IN CHARLES | 3/22/1924 | See Source »

...thousand citizens of Mauch Chunk, Pa., engaged special trains to come to New York to see the Hippodrome production of Better Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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