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...Atlanta, one Walter Dorsey, Negro chicken thief, explained his technique to the judge: "I just sprays 'em with chloroform. Then stand back and wait. In about five minutes they flop off the roost and are ready for my sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tail | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...this symposium (only Stuart Chase is unqualifiedly pessimistic: he analyzes the passivity of fun?listening to radio instead of doing amateur singing, fiddling), but the optimism is qualified with a recognition of arrant abuses, grave dangers. Thus, the Webbs on Labor, McBain on Law and Government, Winslow on Health, Dorsey on Race, James Harvey Robinson on Religion, Lewis Mumford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Topsy- Turvydom | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Dorsey Brothers' reoord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

Charge d'Affaires H. Dorsey Newson of the U. S. Legation at Ottawa spoke crisply, last week, to newsgatherers: "The Government of the United States has acquired the property at 98-100-102-104 Wellington Street, Ottawa, for the purpose of constructing a building to house the offices of the various Government departments in the Capital. . . . Upon the termination of existing leases, it is contemplated that the two brick buildings now standing on the property will be removed and a handsome new edifice erected, which may be four or five stories in height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Amlegation | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...NATURE OF MAN?George A. Dorsey?Harper ($1). In a short preface to this small book, Author Dorsey, of Why We Behave Like Human Beings, says: "This book . . . aims especially to introduce you to the important known facts of human nature and to such biologic hypotheses as can be made to work." Concerned only with the facts of the case, Author Dorsey politely performs introductions to Visceral, Genetic, Somatic, Social, Cultural Behaviour in successive chapters. The book does not argue, it states. Its aim, the aim of the "Things-to-Know Series" to which it belongs,! is to inform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Apple Pie, Red Pepper | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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