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...Joker. A ponderous pair of deep red curtains and the personality of Ralph Morgan are the chief points of interest in this play. Through these red curtains the hero is forced to walk at the big moment-presumably to instant death. His bravery unhinges the villain and pretty soon it is time to go home...

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

King Tut had achieved little of manhood when he died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diadem | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Ohio State) break lose from one tackier, jump another, cross Grange's goal line. Score: Illinois 14, Ohio State 9. All autumn the skilful toe of Benny Friedman and the oaken-bound bucket-ribs of "Bull" Molenda have kept Michigan high in the Conference League. On Saturday this pair, with, alternate punts and bucks, drop-kicks and hurtling off-tackle plays, performed against Minnesota. Score: Michigan 35, Minnesota 0. Northwestern was tied with Michigan for the Conference championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...hope than the future years of his career, daily to be occupied in matching his wits with the flat modiocrity of successive generations of adolescent C-students, and patiently waiting till the death of some better man, hardy and long-lived, allows him to slip into a larger pair of old shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROFESSOR, HOW COULD YOU?" | 11/28/1925 | See Source »

...strongest ever turned out at New Haven. A tremendous offensive, made possible by the great charge of the line and the speed and weight of the backs, has given the Blue many touchdowns. Even while doing down to defeat before Pennsylvania and Princeton, Yale was able to score a pair of touchdowns on each occasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Will Fight to Break Series of Yale Athletic Wins | 11/21/1925 | See Source »

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