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Who is the Governor of Oklahoma? According to the last vote and the general impression of people outside of Oklahoma, he is Henry S. Johnston, a slim, long-nosed lawyer-man with dark-rimmed spectacles. Mr. Johnston and his wife moved into an Oklahoma City apartment last January, when Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Oklahoma's Governor | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Throughout the caterwaul Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, pale-faced and tightlipped, sat imperturbably on the treasury bench. Finally, the speaker said that he was under the impression that the proponents of the censure motion wanted a reply.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

The "toast" offered John Harvard by the undergraduate correspondent of the Yale Alumni Weekly is of that variety known hereabouts as thin and well buttered. Its details are sadistic, its bases dadaistic: and the impression left after reading it is that of a blue hangover, a bleak Monday morning in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE HEAVEN | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

I should not think that you would want to make yourselves look stingy and cheap, but that is the impression produced upon me by the heading above your new "Fashion Department" [Nov. 14 issue].

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

THIS dulcified and emasculate redaction of Mr. Firebaugh's originally very satisfactory translation of Petronius, pot house odyssey has evidently been prepared with an eye to the smut smellers and moral snoopers who, a few years since, swore out a warrant for the apprehension and arrest of the author, patently...

Author: By Lucius BEEBE. G., | Title: Petronius 'Pot-House Odyssey Dulcified | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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