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...thank you," said the Candidate. "I've gotten along so far without flying and I guess I can continue. However, I suppose I will try it sooner or later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Smith's Week | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...certain courses they have already been used to great advantage. These have been courses, Geology 12 for example, in which the student and the professor are in especially close connection. The general examinations are very desirable because they will enable the department to judge better what a student has gotten out of his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Division of Geology Announces Adoption of the Tutorial System | 3/22/1928 | See Source »

...Take back your gold!" was the customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MISSING PROPERTY | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...have gotten no further than printing posters on the other plays," he continued, "but their titles may be significant. Frankie and Johnnie, a light farce with a Derringer Climax the motorcycle will appear in this): The Golden Ophir Mine of Redputch by Francis Full who lived through those wild days: The Murder of Blue Eyed Ella of which pathos has only recently been appreciated: an anonymous gem called Idaho...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DRAMATIC CLUB ANNOUNCES NEW PLAYS IMPRESSIVE LIST PLANNED FOR PRODUCTION | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...Topeka, Candidate Reed reverted to Lawyer Reed when local lawyers told him how "thrilled" they had been by the $100,000 fee he was reported to have gotten for defending Henry Ford in the Sapiro libel case. "All I want to say about that case," replied Lawyer Reed, "is that, whatever the amount of that fee, it was not big enough to pay me for a client lying down after I had won my case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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