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To a certain Mr. Midwood, standing among 250,000 people who spread like a dark fungus around the crooked oval that is the Aintree course, the moments between the last jump and the finish must have been trying. Mr. Midwood is a Liverpool cotton broker who never bets on horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

These are tales of the Potato Face Blind Man, who likes to spin yarns to little girls about moonlight, spiders, rats, elephants; of Yonder the Yinder, "a long spike of a boy with a burning bean for a head, and his eyes full of spears, spads and spitches;" about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Prattle | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

No forger yet, but do get an hilarious kick when someone accuses me of being a crooked damned insurance agent.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

"In Washington 700 speakeasies and 4,000 bootleggers operate unmolested. In Boston prostitution is rampant, with 15,000 persons engaged in purveying booze. In Kansas, after 50 years of Prohibition, there is not a town where I can not go as a stranger and get a very good drink in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Torrid Talk | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Bushnell stressed the fact that "twelve men for woman, God help us are still twelve human beings who react to honesty and chicanery just as we all do. In testifying before them, avoid the 'smart-aleck' attitude, the dogged attitude, and nervous hesitancy. Keep your temper. A clever cross-examiner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cigar-Chewing Cops in Ash-Strewn New Lecture Hall Hear District Attorney Condemn Bullying the Motorists | 2/15/1930 | See Source »

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