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Sent back another bigger slice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meal Time Riots in Old Harvard Commons in 1819 Led to Withdrawal of Sophomore Class---Food and China Thrown | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

Books pass current for a sort of slice from life; it is life as reflected, then, which is objectionable to these self-styled judges for the people. "Evil to him who evil thinks." Great books in every age have grappled with the raw problems of life, near as they are to universal experience. The Albany legislators either deny the reality of these problems, or think that they can legislate them into smoke by passing bills against pictures or representations of these problems in one form or another. In their zeal for meddling and political quackery, the sponsors of the "Clean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS MODERN HYPOCRISY | 2/26/1925 | See Source »

...choice slice of a prize steer which Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge inspected recently at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago (TIME, Dec. 15) arrived at the White House as a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Jan. 19, 1925 | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

Elephants, those kingly beasts, get their buns. But there is a rhyme in this book about a King who had a hard time getting so much as a piece of butter for the royal slice of bread. He asked the Queen to tell the Dairymaid to tell the Alderney to be sure to make some butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When We Were Very Young* | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...could not accept Primo's amnesty, asserted that. Primo needed amnesty, not he. "I cannot accept .the Spanish amnesty," he said, "but I can accept French hospitality. My banishment consisted of 'being thrown onto the island of Fuerteventura, which nature dropped into the ocean like a slice of the Sahara Desert. I lived for months on this arid island, many times suffering from thirst. I cannot return to Spain and retain my dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Dejected | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

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