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...sure you would not care to make such obvious misstatements. . . . You can readily understand that they would cause a great deal of confusion in the minds of not only the members of this Organization, but of the world at large. GRACE W. BROSSEAU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

During the past few weeks there has been evidence that this view of the Lampoon is the correct one. The current issue shows that the Lampoon has got religion, a clean collar, a shave, shine and shampoo, and is reverting with god2ly zeal to its old state of grace. It is a good, clean book for the whole family, and you can show it to Bill Roper too, if he comes around after supper for a Ford ride. The little group of graduate Lampooners in New York, who recently apologized to the world for the Lampoon's latest lapse from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWEL SEES IN LAMPY TENDENCY TO REFORM | 5/10/1927 | See Source »

Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Broken Dolly | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...reminded him of sewage." I wish my husband was here to write you the indignation he, a doctor, would have felt at your indecency. "Joseph Lister slopped carbolic acid."' Ugh I Evidently you never heard that medicine is a ministry. I am sure Dr. Lister performed his miracles with grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...reviewer, who knows poor Tony well at college, and who respectfully begs to differ with Mr. Kay's comments on "He Who Believeth". The book-reviews are pleasantly undignified, and Mr. Howe calls Elmer Gantry a nasty old thing and Paul Cocleau the Adolphe Menjou of literature with equal grace. The tilt at the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, by Mr. Abbott, begins with a gloriously mixed metaphor and goes right on being funny. It is pleasant to read The Man with a Briar again. He was another of my classmates, at college, and I see be is as full of windy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER PEGASUS FINDS FAMILIAR PATHS WIND ABOUT NEW ADVOCATE | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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