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...vast squat howitzer of cut stone, London's War memorial to the Royal Artillery. As it loomed above the traffic that sweeps past St. George's Hospital, Britons felt a crinkly shiver along their spines. Four titanic bronze artillerymen give to the composition a gruesome air of stark reality, making the cold stone of the howitzer seem like colder steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Howitzer | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

When he at last entered the conference room to sign for Italy it is reported that the delegates greeted him with formal bows and stark official courtesy. This was made necessary by the fact that Emile Vandervelde, the Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, had announced that he would under no circumstances shake hands with Mussolini, whom he considers personally responsible for the atrocious murder of the Italian Socialist, Matteaotti (TIME, Oct. 19 et. ante), who was the close friend of Minister Vandervelde. It was felt that a scene could be avoided only by invoking an attitude of rigid formalism...

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

These astounding confessions bid fair to prove the sensation of the literary year. Written with a frankness of self-revelation unmatched in the century-and-a-half since the famous Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, it flames with the stark, blazing spirit of the artist who has become our greatest actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advertising Is Advertising | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

...considerable number of moons have lit the stark ruins of the Coliseum at Rome since the Socialist members boycotted the Chamber of Deputies and established headquarters on the Aventine Hill (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Opposition | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

Tumor is hereditary in the common or wop banana fly Homeopath Mary B. Stark has discovered after ten years research. She described her efforts to breed out tumors in six generations of insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeopaths | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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