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...left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tannenberg Monument | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...When they left the Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate wit of this tidbit: "Our mischievous correspondent's inference seems too obvious for pointing." Over their rude insinuation against the Mayor of the largest U. S. city, they put an almost libelous tag: "THERE MAY BE A CACKLE IN THIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Mayor Abroad | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...other black eyes. Reason: Mr. Knauff had a cold. Mr. Glauber, promising a cure, stuck large porous plasters on Mr. Knauff's chest, back, abdomen. Mr. Knauff got well. Then Mr. Glauber peeled off the plasters, peeling off also Mr. Knauff's means of livelihood in a circus, to wit, a tattooed portrait of Abraham Lincoln (chest); assorted tattooed landscapes, ships, anchors, Uncle Sams (abdomen); nude females, South Sea Islanders, palms, boats (back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defendant | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...late Phoebe Apperson Hearst, daughter of a wealthy Missouri farmer. Famed for her beauty, kindness, wit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President's Bible | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War! | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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