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...such headlines as "SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY . . ." "HUMAN HASH" (topping the story of a railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement of last week: "For a lovely chummy pal. write Nan Bell, National Park, N. J. (Stamp, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barbers' Bible | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...musical talents in New York. Mr. Kruger announces that he has accepted a commission in the medical corps, departs for a Southern cantonment, leaving his wife exposed to a handsome artillery officer who shares her taste for music. Several acts later, by an odd topple of Fate's dice. Mr. Kruger finds himself attempting to save the life of the artillery captain by whom, Mr. Kruger has just learned, his wife has had a baby. The artillerist dies. After the War is over Mr. Kruger, himself wounded, comes home and undergoes some rather genuine-looking torture while his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Down went Stewart and the Franks over the dice. They prayed: "Come, Little Joe! [four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Judge Crap | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...only mildly funny. The trouble is partly the interjection of an unnecessary lovestory, and partly that Bert Swor, who takes Moran's old part in the team, acts merely as a feeder to Mack. Best shot: X-ray of a stomach containing a pair of dice and a fishhook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 21, 1930 | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

...Backgammon is played upon a board of checkerboard size, with 15 draughtsmen for each of the two players, and a pair of dice. The board is divided into four "tables," each being marked with six long triangular "points'' colored alternately in two colors. The object: to move your draughtsmen in accordance with the dice throws from your opponent's inner table to your own, and off, before he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Backgammon | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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