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...Austen's pet scheme for abridging this difficulty is a World Court Conference called by the League of Nations (TIME, April 12, THE LEAGUE) ; but to which the U. S. has refused to send a delegate to "explain" the Senate's reservations (TIME, May 3, THE LEAGUE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD COURT: U. S. Entry? | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...After what eminent Stoic are pet storks commonly named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Jul. 26, 1926 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are commonly named "Cato," after the eminent Stoic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Storks, Whales | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

John E. Andrus of Yonkers, millionaire straphanger and graduate of Wesleyan University in the class of 1862, has been able to gain a hearing, and who can't these days, for his pet query. "Where are the openings for all the college graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STRAPHANGER SAGE | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...wilderness of streets, there might be a deep and stirring picture. The present producers have chosen to make it a cheap composition of many usual things, stringing them together in a generally unamusing necklace. An unschooled Alaskan girl invades Manhattan, cleans out the Biltmore Hotel tea room with her pet bear, learns to dress beautifully, to live dangerously. Matters are complicated by a pair of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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