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...night--enough to disrupt the best laid plans of the most desperate killer. The intended victim has not since slept in the bedroom, while his roommate has done so, only after erecting across the window a magnificent barricade consisting of his bureau stuffed with old clothes to deaden the force of the expected bullets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Died. Edwin Pond Parker II, 39, one-time husband of Manhattan Poetess Dorothy Rothschild Parker; of an overdose of sleeping potion to deaden toothache; in Hartford. Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...magnified and potent tone that Professor Theremin has brought into the world. The radio machines are bad enough, but what will happen to the auditory nerves in a land where super-Theremin machines can hurl a jazz ditty through the atmosphere with such horribly magnified sonorities that they could deaden the sound of an automobile exhaust from 20 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sokoloff's Choice | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...talking cinema. Small is the loss of their livelihood, said the 400, compared to the incalculable loss which the public must suffer from "canned music." Gone will be all chance for U. S. youth-culture; gone will be all appreciation for artistic renditions. Mechanical, soulless music will pervert and deaden the public musical sense. The resolution continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pride at Denver | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...lion of the Lord, cleaned up a saloon-ridden Ohio town, survived two flesh-and-blood wives and one great War, and reaped as reward a luxurious country-club parish in the "Gilt-edged suburb of America." His pulpit thunderings were consistently concerned with Faith, and helped considerably to deaden his own still small voice of doubt. But Ann, his modernist daughter, suspected him of puritanical hypocrisy, and flung herself the more violently into a materialistic existence that was promiscuous, not to say debauched. McGreggor, sensual himself, imagined her life as accurately as it is possible for a Victorian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ministers' Children | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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