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Here Julie, precocious and solemn, became acquainted wi,th Alan Birdsall. Ensued stormy romance. Alan called her "Sugar Cane." She retaliated triumphantly with "Birdseed." Alan, spoiled, tempestuous, self-centred, alternately persecuted and fondled her, all of which she received with grave interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growing Pains* | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

Walt Whitman called it "the Presidential". Woodrow Wilson referred to it as a "great and solemn referendum". The average voter, whoever he may be, looks on it as a recognition of his own importance. The cynic may think it a waste of good time and money, but the patriot leaps to the ballot box with an unholy joy shining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DAYS OF DAYS | 11/4/1924 | See Source »

...hundred percent Americans have flung another insult in the face of the alien. In solemn council the descendants of the ferocious Iroquois Indians of New York and Canada have decided to institute a movement to cast off the white man's God and the white man's civilization. When theatre crowds are bustling along the noisy streets of Buffalo and Montreal, the forests will look upon familiar scenes from the past. While sacred fires shed an eery glow upon the pines, red men will dance as of old, with mystic rite and stately tread, chanting their hymns to the Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOMAHAWKING CIVILIZATION | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

Mexico. When must a church refuse to obey the civil law? As a point in practical churchmanship, this question faced 94 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Manhattan, in solemn session assembled in Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 94 Bishops | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...inspection of the current issue of the Lampoon indicates that the ancient the is still being performed with all due solemnity, that the old joke is still being cracked at the expense of the reader. Industrious young clubmen in training for business have collected a mass of really professional advertisements. The more juvenile members of the club who still have a taste for collecting things have clipped a fair sample of the best and the worst jokes from the various funny papers such as the Tennessee Mugwump, the American Legion Weekly, and the Daily Mail. The fact that a number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CODE DOES NOT TAKE LAMPOON SERIOUSLY | 10/18/1924 | See Source »

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