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...correspondent of The New York World later declared positively that at the British General Headquarters in 1917, he was shown by a subordinate of General Charteris photographs of a huge cauldron choked with fragments of bodies, arms and legs. He was told that this picture was at the time being used in the East for propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candid Charteris | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

Scene: Sealed cauldron at 212 F., called for convenience "Finnish bath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/18/1925 | See Source »

...appearance as pages personally edited by Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic" was used in its popular, journalistic sense in naming the new section. And a popular, highly successful journalistic departure the new section promised to be. It reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Red Magic | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...pointed a horny finger of scorn at the U. S. actively entering the seething cauldron of imperialist politics, and said: "While it has not yet learned to realize its own great power, it studies on Europe's flesh and bones how to use it;" adding: "The American capitalists cannot allow England, France and Germany to regain their markets, as they themselves need them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Americanophobe | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...would be interesting to know how large an excavation could be filled with the dirt removed from the ten thousand graves occupied each year by murderers and their victims; and also whether the knives and bullets extracted from the deceased would, if melted up in a large brass cauldron, be numerous enough to east into a life size status of Gyp the Hloon, to be placed at the entrance to Murder Alley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEADLY STATISTIC | 4/1/1924 | See Source »

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