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...stood sopping amid a shouting throng. Astride the mare sat a big man in an old and faded uniform. The rain trickled from the drooping ends of his mustache. Now and then he soiled his white gloves by patting the mare's neck. Sometimes he bent down to whisper in her ear and she whinnied in reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Quixotic Dictator | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...Tell the public" he whisper" that Bob done his best. It was a mean trick. Why that little tree never did no harm It was a ornament to the community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOB LAMPOON LAMENTS LOSS OF ELM TREE "30 FOOT HIGH" | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

There is reason therefore to watch the informal meetings of French Foreign Minister Briand with Chancellor Streseman; and all the more reason because these meetings have been succeeded by equally surprising meetings between Mussolini and Austen Chamberlain. No one will yet whisper a word; but watchers will stare long at the graphic possibility,--England and Italy grouped, France and Germany joined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE TALLEYRANDS | 10/2/1926 | See Source »

...more instance to add to those which we observe daily in the buildings and Yard, of that youthful exuberance which puts the undergraduate on the top of the world; and as much we regard it with the same contented tolerance. That we once knew ourselves for let me whisper it--we were once undergraduates, and you, foul though the thought may be, will one day be Graduates, even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foul Though the Thought? | 10/1/1926 | See Source »

Under her grandmother's guidance, Dids grows into the best all-around youngster at the high school. Ralph bucks up, with peace at home and a renewed interest in athletics. In a fierce whisper one night, Mrs. Bascomb tells him to cut and run; she will cover his tracks and he shall have his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Mother | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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