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...period 40,000 people had filed by, tantalizing him by munching cake, sandwiches, pickles, drinking bottles of beer and champagne before his brooding eyes. On the afternoon of the twelfth day a young woman came in eating a chocolate éclair. She nibbled, smiled at him, finished the last crumb and licked her fingers when suddenly wild Wolly arose and, swinging his chair over his head, smashed the case. Gendarmes conducted him to a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Janitress | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

Then bespangled officials decided that such half measures were of no avail. They turned the cake over to a neighboring War orphanage. When the last orphan had eaten the last crumb without ill effect, the polizei became convinced that no attempt had been made on the life of William Hohenzollern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cake | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...Stinnes from the lips of the late Albert Ballin, famed head of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line. After a meeting at which Harden had introduced Stinnes to Ballin, the latter said: "Stinnes is the greatest of the Rhineland captains of industry; but just as some children cannot leave a crumb of cake, and some men cannot leave a woman alone, so Stinnes cannot keep his hands off a single business undertaking even when it belongs to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nach dem Tote | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...Story. By the death in unexpected poverty of her father, Leda Perrin was left at the mercy of her cousins, the Crumbs, of the town of Prospect. The Crumbs are "good folk who are wicked." They need no description. There are Crumbs everywhere-the intolerable product of the standardization of humanity. They think the same thoughts, eat the same food, do the same things and do them always in groups. A Crumb, finding himself alone in anything would very possibly go mad. They are gross, suffocating vulgarians. Among them are Orrin, the Gideonite salesman, bristling with esprit de corps; Tweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crumbs* | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...teams will line up as follows: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Emmons, g. g., W. D. Hulbert Freedman, l.f.b. r.f.b., Gottschaldt Daly, r.f.b. l.f.b., Glover Page, l.h.b. r.h.b., Van Iderstine Lucas, c.h.b. c.h.b., Rogers Florance, r.h.b. l.h.b., Crumb Dimond, l.o.f. r.o.f., W. C. Hulbert Tilghman, l.i.f. r.i.f., Aldrich Cooke, c. c., Nelb T. H. Rice, r.i.f. l.i.f., Hazen Kellett, r.o.f. l.o.f., Huang

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER AGAINST GREEN | 12/2/1916 | See Source »

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