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...urine of unborn babies is an excellent vulnerary. Wounds and ulcers promptly heal under the bland influence of a remarkable chemical, allantoin, which such urine contains. Allantoin also occurs in beets and bruisewort, favorite folk remedies for cuts and ulcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Maggot Vulnerary | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

Arms for the Head. Before his roistering House, Speaker Byrns would be completely at a loss without two arms that help to uphold the Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hundred Days | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...mountains of Kweichow where much of the world's mercury is mined and men speak a language called "Miao," feline Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week was stalking Communists, beating them from their lairs, butchering them by hundreds and then thousands-notwithstanding that he is a Methodist of bland and gentle mien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hinterland Kill | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...dingy grotto. The morning after the peace demonstration William Randolph Hearst succeeded in rousing her to a high pitch of excitement with accounts of subversive, un-American, and Marxist activities in our institutions of learning. Puzzled and alarmed she buttonholed a Holworthyite on his way to class with the bland question, "Mr. Burlingthwarp, what's a Commamist?" Disentangling politic 1 philosophies with an unprofessional mind, the young man endeavored to enlighten the harassed woman. They were a group of people, he said, who were running Russia, and were probably trying to get into power over here. They wanted to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

Mississippi (Paramount). To many a cinemaddict any W. C. Fields picture is a good one. This musical film also contains Crooner Bing Crosby, who with bland face and bland voice has recently impersonated such characters as a sailor, a Princeton student, a crooner. Together, Fields and Crosby add certain novel elements to Mississippi's "you-all," hoop skirt & julep plot as taken from a Booth Tarkington play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1935 | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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