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...capacity. As soon as he heard that his 16 agents in Washington had been caught sleuthing the Fall-Sin clair jury, he announced that they had broken no law, "approached" no juror. He hurried down to Washington from Manhattan with a lot of papers, his face boiled red with righteous indignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Detectives Detected | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...unnoticed and uninvited into its editorial sanctum to contaminate, if not totally infect a comment labelled "Let Them See" in the issue of October 14. The exhortation to visual perception was hardly necessary. The H. A. A. is argus-eyed and the CRIMSON can claim no immunity from a righteous protest, To be brief, it has tilted with a windmill, bayed at the moon, shied at a clothes horse. In short, it is not true that undergraduates are included in the draw for football tickets, but are alloted seats by order of classes immediately following applicants for the cheering section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRATUM | 10/15/1927 | See Source »

...fiction, she draws bold conclusions from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates her in literature only with stories concerning one Slippy McGee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Honore de Balzac | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...particularly those of this country, not only resent these publications [the Dearborn Independent and the pamphlets entitled "The International Jew,"] as promoting anti-Semitism, but regard me as their enemy. Trusted friends . . . have assured me that the character of the charges and insinuations made against the Jews . . . justifies the righteous indignation entertained by Jews everywhere toward me because of the mental anguish occasioned by the unprovoked reflections made upon them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Apology to Jews | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

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