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...from despised cooliehood through common banditry & murder to become the ruler of Manchuria. Capturing Peking in 1926 he made himself in effect a King-Dictator, negotiating on equal terms with foreign governments. Affecting a fondness for tiger's blood, which he drank warm from the beast as an aphrodisiac, Old Chang was one of the last absolute monarchs, complete with a decadent, dissolute court and sure of instant obedience when he said (as he often did), "Cut off that man's [or woman's] head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Unfit | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...island, and two men who live there the year round. They slaughter only the billy goats. The hides go to the U. S., the meat to the Mexican Army. Parts which the Mexican Army does not want the men grind into fine powder, sell to the Chinese for an aphrodisiac. A wealthy old man has a cabin on the island, in the hills where the goats are thickest. He gets his aphrodisiac by sniffs-each year his yacht leaves him there, takes him away refreshed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waterfront Pages | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...case of 24 2-oz. bottles, which contained altogether about $7 worth of radioactive material. Investigators last week sought to identify this William J. A. Bailey with the William J. Bailey whom a Chicago court fined 14 years ago for exploiting "Las-I-Go for Superb Manhood," a quack aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radium Drinks | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...while away the time he whets his scythe, courts the womenfolk of Dodder who find him highly aphrodisiac. Parson Hayhoe's wife, who has lost her only child, lets him love her, as does crazy Sarah Bridle. Best of all he loves Joe Bridle's truelove Susie Dawes. But Susie's depraved father will not let her go with Bridle or with Death: he aims to sell her to rich, sadistic Farmer Mere. After the wedding ceremony Joe Bridle in love's despair hands the deadly parchment back to Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clay Rabbits | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Spanish flies, an aphrodisiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Queer Drugs | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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