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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason probably is that this part of the upkeep cost has become too insignificant to figure in the computations of most buyers. Not only has the price of gasoline remained nearly constant while the national income has risen considerably, but the prosperity that has come upon the auto industry has so increased the value of the dollar spent in purchasing a car that the smaller fractions of it saved in such ways lose their significance. Probably the most important consideration of all is that higher consumption of gas brings increased power, and it is not without its significance in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDARDS OF VALUE | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

Although its existence is no longer marked by the constant flourish of trumpets that accompanied its birth struggles, student government appears to be doing well enough, in a quiet way; and once a year it takes pleasure in calling together its representatives from the convenient extremities of Maine and California, to take stock, likewise in a quiet way, and to celebrate another anniversary. The National Student Federation meeting is one of the rare front-page topics left of the sensational tumult that a few years ago nearly brought faculties and undergraduates to blows, and did result in an almost universal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPES AND FEARS | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

...verses were bright, rousing, full of Gascon gallantries. His rapier was rapid. But his nose was freakishly long, disfiguring. Therefore he felt frustrated in his love affair with Roxanne, and Edmond Rostand's famed heroic comedy turns into tragedy. Cyrano has made theatrical history in the versions of Constant Coquelin and Richard Mansfield. In the. U. S., of late years, Walter Hampden has honored both himself and the role. On Christmas night he revived Cyrano, scored again. Ingeborg Torrup was a new, petite, luscious Roxanne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Alexandra's unpopularity, if such indeed it was, steadily increased. Her constant advice to the tsar was that he show himself man and ruler by adamantine autocracy. Her constant offering to the nation was daughter after daughter, and never an heir to the throne. Troubled by this her failing, she resorted to mystic seances (Princess Radziwill includes table-tipping, which the Baroness denies) conducted by a smooth character who turned out to be ex-jailbird and Parisian hairdresser. This Philippe prophesied a son; the Empress believed herself with child; a date was publicly announced, and excitement ran high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omens | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Baroness Buxhoeveden was one of the few faithfuls who followed the royal family into their dreary Siberian exile, herself narrowly escaping their gruesome fate. She was constant companion to the grand duchess, but has not recognized the authenticity of the young woman who last year claimed to be Anastasia, escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omens | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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