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...supposedly polite dinner party, a Mrs. Keith turns savagely upon her female guests, stating that one of them is her husband's mistress. Someone, it is true, has been making amorous advances through the shrubbery about the house; but, with a sudden burst of self-sacrificial solemnity, Mr. Keith's heir falsely insists that the figures seen en route to furtive passions were those of himself and one of the suspected women's housemaids. This precipitates a semi-tragic interruption of the endearments which had hitherto been passing between the Keith scion and a nice young girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Meteorological indications for tomorrow show that the Harvard hegira to New Haven will not be hindered by adverse climatic conditions. Although a sudden cold snap may shut down tonight, a rising thermometer is forseen during the morning and early afternoon tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEATHER PROGNOSTICATORS SEE CLEAR FOOTBALL DAY | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...tried to get M. Poincaré to form a new ministry in succession to the Poincaré Cabinet of Sacred Union, torpedoed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 12).* At first the "Lion of Lorraine" had sulked and growled resentment at the torpedoing-the growls and sulks abating slowly. His sudden appearance now at ten p.m. meant unquestionably that he had succeeded in arranging a new and workable group of parties and ministries. Soon President Gaston Doumergue formally approved the following cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reparations Cabinet | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Mooted but unconfirmed is the tale that behind Dictator Carmona's sudden shoe decree looms a man named Bat'a. Famed, he, Thomas Bat'a, is the Shoe Tycoon of Czechoslovakia (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Shoes by Decree | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Thrilling wrecks, sudden death, storms, hungry months on a deserted island, cannibals, savage chiefs, heathen rites, drunkes traders, Spanish dons, rogues, murderous fights,--all crowd the pages of this true tale of the adventures of Captain John Cameron a salty sailor of the old clipper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Selected List of Important Fall Books | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

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