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...borne to the top of the pyre and there set down. In life he had been an amiable if do-nothing puppet of France. His pleasures were slumber, meditation and degustation. Fittingly and honorably he was borne away to Buddha, amid the swelling and sizzling of mercury, and the sweet stench of aromatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pickled & Burned | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Despite the preoccupations of its plot, this drama is as innocuous and sweet as vanilla ice-cream. June Walker plays the part of Sir Basil's U. S. representative with soft and flexible insouciance. Bred in Chicago, she made her stage debut in the chorus of Hitchy Koo, and has since taken its verbal last syllable for a motto. Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap. She has done this in Six Cylinder Love, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Love Nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...program follows: Peg-a-Ramsay Anon So sweet is she Anon Tobacco Hume Song of Momus to Mars Boyee A Kiss I begged Gamble She never told her love Haydn I'll sail upon the Dog-star Purcell Todtengrabers Heimweh Schubert Das Wandern Schubert (Solo and Chorus) Sea Shanties A-Roving (Capstan Shanty) Haul away Joe (Fore-sheet Shanty) What shall we do with the drunken sailor (Runaway Shanty) Shenandosh (Capstan Shanty) Billy Boy (Capstan Shanty) Hullabaloo belay (Harvards Shanty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOURTH WHITING CONCERT OF SEASON TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...personality the Sardinian is grave and dignified, chivalrous and hospitable. Unfortunately he is nearly always poor and generally illiterate. Luxury to him means a tummy replete with porchettu, or sucking pig roasted upon a spit. Between piglets he subsists upon a diet featuring frue (sour milk) and a sweet fresh cheese. Hardy, he is apt not to notice fleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dagger Falls | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...stand in a corner, too scared to look. About a year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty, sweet & pretty, who had married the village fire chief, Eugene Gatlin, went to him and made a confession. She said she had killed her father with an axe and put his body in a trunk in the cellar. The corpse of Smith T. Petty was found where Alma Gatlin said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Murder Trial | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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