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...purveyors of small ingenuities, perpetual optimists who swell the total of U. S. patents to some 50,000 a year. For example, Albert Giese of Benton Harbor, Mich., had heard a shocking story that 15,000 to 20,000 milkers are blinded every year by the restless tails of cows. His patented cow-tail restrainer was on display last week among 484 other inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gadgeteers Gather | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...smokehouse and a cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eggs Into Electricity | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...program, which seldom jibed with what was going on onstage, partly to the material presented. There was a number called "A Chorus Girl in the Country" in which a strange looking baggage came out, flitted stiffly about the stage, went through a pantomime to suggest milking a cow, then flitted ott again. A handsome, Junoesque blonde named Betzi Beaton (Follies) stared wall eyed at the audience, blew a few soap bubbles, huskily mumbled a few incoherences, sidled off into the wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...tutted the unseemly conduct of Major Walter Elliot, publicity-courting Minister of Agriculture, who permitted himself to be carried to the premises of Birkbeck College last week by two students dressed as a cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...Manhattan's swank Park Lane Hotel one noon last week rolled a truck bearing two pure-bred Holstein-Friesian cows named Nysia Maggie Titanic de Kol and Nysia Maid Gertrude. Two white-robed attendants tethered them in fresh hay in the hotel's garden, then painstakingly inspected their gleaming hides & hoofs for specks of dirt. To make news for a charity benefit the two Nysias were that night to be milked by Manhattan's lushest debutantes. First prize: silver cigaret & vanity case. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the more serious girls arrived to inspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Milkers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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