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...moment later. "Look how long his neck is," one exclaimed. "That's because it's broken," explained an officer. The girls giggled. The doctor ordered silence so that he could listen for heart beats with his stethoscope. Fourteen minutes later he was still hearing them. "Aw, hell," someone yelled, ''knock him on the head with a hammer." An officer patted his six shooter: "I know a faster way than that." Thus the spectacle went on for over an hour until all three were hanged and dead. Father Collins standing beside the sheriff smiled through...
Sirs: Is TIME a sawmill; does knowledge come in aw logs, and do all the skidroads lead to TIME/ As a taxpayer and a centre of knowledge is TIME interested in the following...
...astounding success Ballyhoo opened the gates to a flood of imitators intent upon outdoing it in bawdry alone. Result: on newsstands of the land last week appeared two new magazines, "Aw Nerts!" and Slapstick which, with other recent offerings (Tickle-Me-Too, Hooey) comprise as vile a mess of reading as has ever been put on sale...
...Aw Nerts!", a crude imitation of Ballyhoo, is perpetrated by an obscure publisher in Manhattan. Slapstick, published by Harold Hersey, occasional associate of Bernarr ("Body-Love") Macfadden, is not itself an imitation, but a successor to Tickle-Me-Too (also Kersey's). TIME makes no attempt to report the contents of these smutsheets since an accurate report would necessitate reprinting the unprintable...
...live in respectable surroundings with his mother. Cooper is unwilling to go. To make him less unwilling, Beery gives him a blow across the face, then smashes his own hand against the side of his cell. Even this mistreatment does not discourage little Cooper. Presently he is back, muttering, "Aw gee!" with sniveling, or sometimes gay, affection. Finally there arrives Beery's comeback as a fighter. He shuffles into the ring in a torn bathrobe, defeats what is supposed to be a first-class boxer in a struggle which will seem a little absurd to anyone who has ever...