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Fashion displays such as that at Deauville were explicitly condemned by a general pontification of last week from the Vatican's famed semi-official news organ Osservatore Romano. Lamenting for the Globe in general, Osservatore cried: "Immorality is still vast. Sufficient proof is afforded by the Press with its audacious articles and by fashions which are ever more bold and unseemly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Citroen Sits | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan's new Hotel Piccadilly, which opened its doors last week. As credentials, Bellhop Vannard brought jealously guarded recipes of Piccadilly the Elder to Piccadilly the Younger. None of these, however, impressed immigration authorities, who rudely consigned bellhop, pudding, recipes, to Ellis Island, until Bellhop Vannard might submit proof he would not become a public charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...spinster in a million would offer equally good proof of her own innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fancies into Facts | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, colored and convicted violator of the Mann Act. I was delighted because I had been scoffed at by Methodists for saying that I had seen an item concerned with the same speaker in a local daily. Here at last, I felt, was proof of the actuality, for I and others, place much faith in the verity of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...That the Republican Party chooses as its standard-bearer one who is not only not a politician but who has a professed contempt for a politician's calling, is proof of how completely the party accepts the dictum of President Coolidge that "the business of the United States is business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover Pleases | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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