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From its name one might guess that the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church is an official Episcopal organization and a supporter of Prohibition. It is neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet For Temperance | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lindbergh-Morrow | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Signor Donnarumma looked reproaches at Signora Donnarumma. The young wife could guess her husband's thoughts, for she knew that he had boasted in the village, "I shall have a son!" He had even bet on it. Now he would be laughed at, and perhaps he would hate her for making the villagers laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Miraculous Bambino? | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...found or are likely to be found that will give a final and complete answer to this problem. encountered in the complex conditions that exist in nature, but with constant study more and more ways of scanning critical evidence of various sorts are being developed, so that today one "guess" about what is ahead of the pick is likely to be considerably more accurate than in the past, and there is reason to hope that there will be still further improvements in the future. This hope is to some measure reassuring, for otherwise with the rapidly increasing rate of depletion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Professor Explains New Method of Detecting Oil Fields and Minerals--Electricity Replaces "Divining Rod" | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...Well, I, guess maybe I oughta...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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