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Her uncle and aunt, with whom she was at the time of Captain Foley's call, testified that they got the impression that Captain Foley was trying to intimidate her, and that Secretary Wilbur had sent Captain Foley to try to get her to testify as he wished.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shenandoah Case | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

In a Garden. There is an ever growing impression that Laurette Taylor is the greatest U.S. actress. Devotees of Ethel Barrymore and Mrs. Fiske will balk indignantly at this assertion, for the impression has been current for some years that Mrs. Fiske is our greatest actress, and that Miss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

Since the Scopes trial, many people have felt (unjustly enough) that their eyes had surely been opened to the condition of things in Tennessee-a wildwood state, populated by bearded illiterates whose ears still rumble with echoes of the shooting at Bull Run, whose Bible is a shotgun, whose primer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Tennessee | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

Those two bulwarks of education in the East, the Universities of Yale and of Harvard, have furnished grist for many a generality. Harvard men, whose impression of Yale may have been limited to a distorted glimpse of Harkness Tower as beheld from a motor car on the way to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Tennessee | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

It has been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Luminaphone | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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