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...Yo' goofer du-hust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Medicine Man | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...comedy tart is both musical and comic. Gershwin Brothers saw to it that Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar Shaw, and Victor Moore had the material, and these three, aided by the dancing of Harland Dixon and Betty Compton, made good use of it. When they play "Do Do Do" and "Clap Yo" Hands," the audience does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1927 | See Source »

...English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife an' fo'k!") or Jewish haberdashery ("Oy yoy! Soch a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pidgin Ad | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...present there are in China three main contenders for power, Chang Tsolin, in the North, Feng Yo-hsi-hsiang in the West, and Chiang Kai-shek in the South. Of these three there is only one, the southern general, Chang, who really has the true interests of his country at heant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreigners Responsible for Chinese Difficulties Kwong Asserts--Chang Only Leader Interested in People's Good | 12/9/1926 | See Source »

...Amherst, brave Amherst, 'twas a name known to fame In days of yo-o-ore; May it ever be glorious Till the sun shall climb the heavens no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Amherst | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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