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...upon the face of Mr. Schnugg; he had come so near to having the highest hand in poker, a natural royal flush, and his chance of drawing the needed card (ten of hearts) was so minute as to be nigh undecipherable. Mr. Schnugg stretched out his hand to the pack, flushed to the ears. He had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Contaminated | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

Tracked in the Snow Country. Best of all the cinema dogs is Rin-Tin-Tin. He is herein occupied in joining a pack of wolves with whom he is presumably related and tracking the fanged fury who killed his master. All in the cold countries. Good if you like canine romances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...Paris saw the horses, after the usual momentary tangle, clear away from the web; they reached the first turn. Suddenly, out of the pack, reared a riderless steed, flat-eared, plunging; many women screamed shrilly; what had happened became, in a moment, obvious. Four horses had gone down. Four small men in silks lay twisting on the turf while the field swept past them, led home by Baron James A. De Rothschild's La Reine Lumière, 120 to 1, the first filly to win the Grand Prix since 1902. One of the three men was Stephen Donoghue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Prix | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

Charles Lathrop Pack, forester, economist D.B.A. (business administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 29, 1925 | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...hours, at 85 miles an hour, they flew, always north. They had used nearly half their gasoline. If the planes were ever to take them home again, they must descend. And there below them the first streak of blue seen in eight hours indicated water, a "lead" in the pack ice. Down nosed Amundsen in the N-25, the N24 following suit. Suddenly, a break in the steady roar of the motors, as startling as a shout, smote Amundsen's ear. N-25's engine had died. The pilot, Riiser-Larsen, now must land wherever he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out of the Arctic | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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