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...resign, so that someone else might form a "Big Coalition" in which the Socialists would take part. Since no German statesman has been able to do this during the past six weeks, Dr. Luther is apparently to carry on and make the best of everybody's bad job...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: New Cabinet | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...audience is full of society which is only there in order to see who else has come and gloomy music critics who feel they must say fearful things about the performance in order to keep their reputation with the public, I always feel depressed. It's an up hill job. If society isn't listening and critics let it all in one ear and out the other while they listen to what the lady in the row behind is saying it is no use attempting to sing. On the other hand when it is obvious that the orchestra and balconies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Die Walkure" Billed for Harvard Night With Chicago Opera Company Tonight--Brunnhilde Likes College Men | 1/26/1926 | See Source »

...Happening upon a rich uncle, he gets a job in the avuncular collar factory at Lycurgus, N. Y. His own neckwear improves. He sniffs wealth and position, smears oil on his hair and his manners. He puts afoot a promising campaign for the hand, body and prestige of Sondra Finchley, social princess of Lycurgus. While that plan is maturing, he cannot resist indulging in one of the factory girls, Roberta Alden. The physiological consequence is normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: U. S. Tragedy | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...this combination will be the first to face the invading team tonight. The two lines will probably be kept intact and substituted at frequent intervals. The fight for the right defense berth is still on between Coady and Clark and it is uncertain which one will land the regular job along with Pratt. Captain Cumings, whose work in front of the net has been one of the bright spots in practically every game, is a fixture at his position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKATERS TO OPPOSE CONQUERORS OF ELI | 1/20/1926 | See Source »

...quondam policy of answering League communications eight months after their receipt, now answering the with solicitous promptitude. The reason is obvious. After years of uncertainty, the United States is finally determined on isolation. After years of attempted conversion, the League has given the United States up for a bad job and left her to the good graces of that isolation. Being farther apart in fact, the two are closer together in understanding. So these small gestures of the United States are harbingers of better times to come,--if League chauvinists do not overdo them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNIFICANT GESTURES | 1/19/1926 | See Source »