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Wandering in a haunted Venezuelan jungle, a naturalist once heard a trilling note, birdlike, clear, unearthly. Stumbling in the thickets, he sought its source for days, but it always eluded him. One day by accident he came upon the triller.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pan v. Rima | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Theirs was the spook with which a bailiff, carrying a Municipal Court summons, haunted the Blackstone Hotel last week seeking Senator Moses. But the Senator was not to be found. Hotel employes explained he had "just checked out."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Spook | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

"I have been haunted always by the Southern highlanders' need of a recorder. Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense. To do this it has been necessary to make a long study of their idiom and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee Talk | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

From Freedom, Me., from Ty Ty, Ga., from Roosevelt, Minn., from Coolidge, Kan.-from some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dimes, Deficits | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Playwright Francis de Croisset, a familiar figure in the U. S.-haunted Ritz bar, tried an epigram: "For women an idea always has a face."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Picture Supplement | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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