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Guido Francveschini then began to ring the chimes. He was removed to a lunatic asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dopes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...Esme was pleased with his diplomatic handiwork. In a farewell speech he insisted that the relations between the U. S. and Britain were never better, that any idea of war between them was "fan tastic" and that those who predicted it were "already qualified for the insane asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Honor & Beauty | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Onetime Cinemactress Alma Rubens (Humoresque), lately released from the California State Asylum where she had been committed as a narcotic addict (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), made a redebut at a Hollywood night club. Said she: "Toward the end it became terrible. I placed dope on a pedestal. . . . I stayed in a cell with a mad woman for more than two weeks. . . . I'm cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1930 | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...prison. Ralph Green and Ralph Thomas later clubbed Harold Plant, claimed that the parents of Rose Messel had urged them to do so. Ralph Green, Ralph Thomas, Rose Messel's father and mother went to prison. Rose Messel's father became insane, was removed to a lunatic asylum. Last week, a cripple, Rose Messel died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...tries to get another engagement, loses her good name to get the railway fare home because she thinks her mother is dying. Her mother is well enough to quarrel with her. and Joy goes back to London. gets a job as companion to an old lady in a private asylum. There she does not know how to defend herself from the doctor, is fired again, meets her gigolo, whom she has thought of day and night, and is happy with him for 24 hours. He is the biggest cad in the whole book, which ends appropriately in an unfinished conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Joy Unconfined | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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