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...lean faced Texan with a curious eye walked in and looked around It was his first visit. With a curious deference he was sharpening their pencils for the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations on September 4. Then he called on Sir Eric Drummond the Secretary General of The League and was courteously recieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: The Pencil Sharpeners | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...Manhattan, a Hebrew lean as a knife-blade was introduced to a squat Italian. Instantly the Italian tried to hit the Hebrew in the face. A furious scuffle ensued, continued. Some twelve minutes later a doctor was bending anxiously above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...Glencoe, Ill. William T. Tilden II, lean-faced histrion, dearly loves to make a great gallery prickle with the delicious belief that it is about to see the defeat of a champion, dearly loves to astound that gallery with a crashing, irresistible rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...lean face, whittled, leaner by anxiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third set, and brought the score to 4 all in the fifth and deciding set of the match. Then it was that Tilden threw down the balls he had been about to serve with and lifted a lean face, whittled leaner by anxiety and irritation, toward the yelling, jostling hooligans in the stands. The umpire besought order; the noise dwindled; again the sping-spung of balls became audible. Lott took the ninth game; the crowd did not whisper now. With wracking caution, Tilden brought the score to deuce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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