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...thing I cannot understand. How can you always be here, not only on time but some-times several hours ahead, while you?" and he glared at the expensive parquet and balcony? "with automobiles and every convenience in the world, are utterly unable to do the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Adieu | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...along this same general trend that Mr. Aswell continues to work--this time in search of a remedy for melancholia. And, if he reaches a conclusion which although more intelligent is essentially no more correct than that of most of his predecessors it is not because he does not understand his material. Where he fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAL DE SIECLE | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

TIME was like an apple pie when J first subscribed. Now it is like a mince pie; and so I am asking you in this letter to cancel my subscription. Do you understand what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...train gained headway, and plump onetime Premier Herriot, 55, almost decided to leap out without kissing M. le President. He too is plump, would understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Premiers Leap | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...becomes involved in a friendship between Germain de Chavannes and a young German prisoner. At great risk, she unites these two, helping the German to escape to Switzerland. In so doing she increases the hostility between herself and her son. In the end she succeeds in making him understand her position. Marc goes to see his father, detests him, comes back to Annette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hail Storm | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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