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...stood unhurt. The Rotarians drew closer . . . "Blam-blam!" . . . and soon three of them were writhing with pain. Baker Walter C. Spitz, Banker John Telling and Reporter H. V. Streeter suffered cuts, scratches and contusions as chunks of lead, ricocheting from the entertainer's fancy waistcoat-now proved bullet- proof beyond the shadow of a doubt-whirred among craning necks and peering heads, luckily injuring only three and those but slightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marvel | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Beals replied that he had thought he was addressing adult intelligences. Mrs. Dawes left the room. Mr. Beals stated that proof of his charge would soon be offered by the Mexican Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: War on War | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Federal Reserve System. . . . He controls the revolutionary elements of the world, on one hand, and the ultra-conservative elements, on the other, so he has equal power in Communistic Russia and in capitalistic England, not to mention the theatre, motion picture and agriculture.' Jews claim my assertions are without proof. Merchant Straus wanted me to debate my accusations before a pseudo-court of ten persons. I was to choose any eight men I pleased, he the other two. I reject his suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: people: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...college have hitherto been secured from alumnae whose emotions have been stirred by emotional appeals to the spirit of the old college. Future appeals for funds, if they are to come from us when we attain the dignity of graduates, will have to be based upon reason and upon proof of the need. Our affections for this our temporary place of residence, will probably be no less than that or our predecessors, but it is going to be of a some what different nature. We shall remember our college not in the golden glow of careless youth, but with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Not Trusted by College Presidents Asserts MacCracken | 12/10/1926 | See Source »

...jazz, or the desire for comedy that is really comic. One does not have to be an intellectual to appreciate "The Mikado" or "The Gondoliers"; and "Patience" in spite of its theme being quite dead, is as alive today as in the time of Oscar Wilde. it is a proof of the universality of enjoyment for clever dialogue and good music to see a modern audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce in the latter part of the nineteenth century--but these two would appear to have withstood the test of time. Certainly modes and manners have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW DUO AMONG CLASSICS | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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