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...time will come, later, when any Turk can wear any hat he chooses or none!" said Tewfik Rushdi Bey with emphasis "But the fez was a symbol and had to be abolished because it represented a psychological state that was wrong...
...Right or Wrong? The Ocotal affair revived last week with greatest virulence the question whether the Administration of U. S. President Coolidge has been right or wrong in its recent dealings with Nicaragua (TIME...
...invention did not, however, enable a plane to depress its wings, bird fashion. It was an adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward...
...press to writing the Comedie Humaine. Everything he did was characterized by a gigantic and exaggerated gusto. At dinner with George Sand "three bottles had been emptied. He pointed to them: 'We are not drinking!' After they had consumed six dozen oysters, he pointed to the shells: 'What's wrong with you all tonight? Does nobody feel hungry...
Naughty but Nice (Colleen Moore). Naughty, because she fibs to the headmistress of her "ritzy" finishing school and gets herself locked up at a houseparty with the wrong man; nice, because she tailors her hair, retains her respectability. Also dumb...