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Might as well say Hell Gate is entrance to your famed Manhattan as to say Atlanta was a southern gateway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Last Laugh, Siegfried, Variety, achieves a triumph in photographic fantasy. From the ever-serviceable Faust story is derived a weird fairytale, a picture story of the powers of evil on earth. Through it all goes Emil Jannings, a not particularly impressive Devil, making funny faces, playing mean pranks, raising hell. In the end, however, he loses his wager with the Lord's archangel, for Faust regained a soul by dying at the side of Marguerite with LOVE in his heart. A story not without significance, but florid rather than profound. The excellence of the film lies in its beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...always been and so it will be until the millenium. Soldiers have said that war was hell, and have awaited eagerly the wars that brought promotions. Statesmen have declared that their particular war was a war to end war, and have returned from signing treaties of peace to sing appropriations for bigger and better armament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMED PEACE | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...hell of Great Lakes seamen is the St. Mary's River over whose cascades 75,000 cubic feet of icy cold Lake Superior water somersault every second. At the city of Sault Sainte Marie, this "Soo" River drops 20 feet in three-quarters of a mile. But both the Canadian and the U. S. Governments have built locks at the cascades, that can lift two to four lake steamers to the Lake Superior level. These ships, long, round-topped whale-backs for the most part and peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...Court I don't blame you. How in hell do you think we can keep New Jersey on the map with you birds talking this way? Put some sex in it. Where's the Hog Lady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

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