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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), great English philosopher-economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
...Authorities looked at the body, decided it had better be buried while there was something still left to bury. Next day in overalls and gingham the "Immortals," who support themselves by farming, chanted a requiem as Brother Isaiah was lowered into the earth. He lay in a plain pine box, his head pointed toward the north, his long, white whiskers flowing over his long, white robe. His followers plowed and harrowed the earth above him, went away to await his second coming...
...Sweet pulled on his operating gloves, Warden Lawes, under a brilliant, shadowless box light, felt a nurse swabbing the sore thigh with iodine. Another swung a table of instruments handy. A Negro artist serving a life sentence stepped up on a stool near the operating table. He had pad and pencil to picture the entire operation. Dr. Sweet jabbed a local anesthetic into Warden Lawes's leg. The Warden winced. The Surgeon sliced. The Warden felt nothing. The Surgeon clamped blood vessels, sliced some more, reached a fibrous capsule which enclosed the "tumor...
...result of the investigation was a recommendation by Administrator Rosenblatt that the suspension of code provisions on "excessive" salaries be continued indefinitely; that a committee be appointed to report whether cinemartisans should work for a minimum salary plus a percentage of the box office receipts. Declared Administrator Rosenblatt...
Johnny fears nothing, does everything he is told. At home he shinnied up the brace of the kitchen sink and turned on the faucet to lap a drink. He jumped off the ice box into his father's arms. He crawled up on one of the gratings which guard every window of the Wood apartment and almost fell to the sidewalk. He poked his head through the cover of the radio loud speaker. At the small table where he eats with Jimmy he showed adequate table manners, dunked his bread in his soup, smiled easily at company...