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...rough sketch used for publicity by the San Francisco citizens' committee, which is now out raising $15,000 for materials. "It is," said Old Peg, "a figure with . . . a pointed beard, inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having, beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into a bar rel. ... I, personally, will undertake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: San .Francisco's Saint | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Next to Vassar's "Future Gold Star Mothers," I think the above mentioned ad the rottenest exhibition of very bad taste that I have known in my entire lifetime. There is nothing in the drool (in smaller print) under the cartoon that can lessen the sting of the picture and its caption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...there you gather inspiration for your drool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAYER | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

...rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment to these actions, most of the people in the book display the usual pathological symptoms: they drool, twitch, giggle, and gibber in the most authentic manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...epileptic uttering a loud shout and dropping like a log to the ground, face pale, eyes rolling, hands clenched, legs spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after which the epileptic grows limp, breathes with a heavy rasp, drops into deep unconsciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epileptic Brain Waves | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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