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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While he did so, Miss Ghose and Miss Chowdhuri drew automatic pistols from their schoolgirl saris (shawls) and foully murdered Magistrate Stevens by pumping his chest full of lead at point blank range. A British orderly who dashed in was wounded in the hand by one of the schoolgirls last shots. Perfectly composed, they were locked up in the local British jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bengal Pains | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...with plants for cooking and scent blending. An energetic woman, she has written previous books on the herbal art, founded the Society of Herbalists, established Culpeper House in London as herbalist headquarters and salesroom. Mrs. Leyel has a rural home near Bognor, Sussex, where King George convalesced from his chest ailments. At Bognor, it is said, certain of the Grieve-Leyel made their way into the royal dishes if not into the royal medicines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Simples | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned out to see rough-&-ready justice done. They strung up the blackamoor, blinded by bandages, to a tree on the court house lawn. After 20 min. he was cut down, taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Eastern Shore Justice | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...preview in Chicago, 27-year-old Inventor Leonarde Keeler tried out on two members of the audience his "Lie-Detector" which police have found handy for questioning recalcitrant suspects. The '"Lie-Detector" is a device which, by means of arm and chest bands, records on a paper chart changes in blood pressure and pulse action, presumably resulting from emotion. At last week's test, it worked so well when attached to two De Paul University students that Inventor Keeler said: "The results are . . . even more pronounced than in many cases in which suspects are being questioned in connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Tubaman Houston lets his right foot do some of the work that ordinarily requires mighty chest expansion, highly developed breath control. His foot, instead of idly marking time, operates a bellows which shoots auxiliary air up through a tube into his mouth. That the air may reach the mouth at lung temperature and humidity, the tube passes through a small tank of water heated by an electric light bulb. Mr. Houston admits that the aerophor presents its difficulties. It takes a big mouth to hold the forked tube on either side of the big tuba mouthpiece, a special facial-muscle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aerophor | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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