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A grand piano is a commonplace, and it was curious how the great assembly in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, stared at one last week as if the sleek, black, three-legged harp were some jungle animal. Some stared because they knew the secret of that sable instrument; others because their neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disappointment | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

The shepherd David, a pale boy staring at a man in armor; David the warrior, huge-thewed and falcon-hearted, marching before the armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honegger, Bodanzky, David | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

Descending into the lobby of the hotel at which the "interview" was given, Mussolini's brow darkened as he found the boycotting journalists quietly staring at him, without making the slightest move to question him about anything. Folding his arms imposingly, the Dictator marched up to George Slocombe, fiery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cold Welcome | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

Perhaps it was for such a glimpse that a reporter was staring in the lobby of the Algonquin last week. He must have received a first-rate shock, for there he perceived before him no literary lion, no theatrical celebrity-but Commander Evangeline Booth of the U. S. Salvation Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister & Brother | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

In Manhattan, while Frank D. Waterman, nephew of L. E. Waterman, famed fountain pen maker, was being congratulated on having received the Republican nomination for Mayor, an old man sat in a vacant office on Madison Ave. staring at a fountain pen of antique design. He, Warren N. Lancaster, onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: In Valladolid | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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