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...certain connotation through its best exponents, Tom's Mix, Heeney, Marshall, Lipton and a bunch of other good skates belong; when the noble order gets a dud, he goes as Thomas, or Woodrow if a stuffed shirt, as Tommie if just too sweet. Lennon may hear drums say wum-wum but they always call me by name. Long may they beat and in the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Said A. Forbes Milne, Director of Music at Berkhamsted School: "I am afraid that in these days girls do not want to be singing lullabies and 'Be Good, Sweet Maid.' They prefer 'The Vagabond' and 'Give to Me the Life I Love.' They gave a very indifferent performance of 'Virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Knight Bleated Down | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Pills | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...crisp celery and olives and covered with cracked ice, pickles have held the rank of first of the American hors d'oeuvres. The most jaded of appetites respond to the stimulus of the pickle." Comparing notes, jubilant picklepackers reported mounting sales, renewed popularity of pickles, plain and fancy, sweet and sour, dill, warted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Conventions | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Today, the burden of acquiring knowledge is thrust entirely upon the student. Facts are ladled out to him wholesale, like sweet and sour pickles from a tub, with little effort expended upon distinguishing the sweet from the sour. The man behind the book is more willing to learn than ever before, but the man behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clase Parts, by Eliot, Jones, and Reel, Cover Wide Field at Commencement Ceremonies | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

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