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...Meanwhile the "Trader" cackled harmless and sometimes intriguing remarks. Example: "The first elephant ever I shot had ivories that weighed 140 pounds. And if you think I wasn't the most tickled youngster on earth, why, dispel the rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Comings & Goings: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...ensued, and Colonel Lam Bhate explicitly declared: "For the God of Love, for Wealth, and for the Blessing of Procreation, to you I offer Devi Sharmista." When news of these words reached the bride's grandfather, Mr. Louis Schaefer, in Seattle, he exclaimed: "I'm sorry I wasn't there to give Nancy away. . . . That is a gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stars, Moon, Sun | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...wasn't sure, the year that Harding was nominated, whether he was a Democrat or a Republican. Neither were the Republicans...

Author: By Charles Merz, | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

...Hair", the offering which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan, had as its first shot a color photo of Clara Bow feeding fish to a tired pelican. The point wasn't wholly clear to us at the moment, but just a little more of Clara Bow made the allegory oh, so clear. Elinor Glyn wrote it, Clara Bow acts in it, and there you are. Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that...

Author: By C. D. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...into a 17,000-foot drop from which she was extracted with difficulty. Over Germany, Levine ordered the plane flown until the last drop of gas was gone, forcing an accident when a landing had to be made on rough ground. After each accident, said Mr. Levine in effect: "Wasn't that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Back-Fire | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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