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...eternal dance orchestras and weather reports, is not easily understandable. Able professors and accompanying recording lists would at least give food for thought to any member of the radio audience who cares to think. The experiment, which in its basest form could result in nothing wose than ineffectual drool emanating from tenth rate educators, is worth trying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDUCATION OF THE UNIVERSE | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the Valentino case had given Bernarr Macfadden's Evening ("porno") Graphic opportunity to drool libidinously. According to its headlines and full- full-page accounts, Rudolph Valentino had been poisoned by a jealous female, had been pummeled by a jealous male, had been shot in a supper-club quarrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intelligence | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...Human flesh, when the source is not known, is tender and sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earth worms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness. Eels even cooked retain their stench of the sea. Snakes. . . . An atavistic nausea sickened the boys. Black jungle folk might drool over the carcass of a boa constrictor. But Penn State students! None the less they were themselves to eat snake flesh to maintain a college tradition. Goggly-eyed, some watched their cook strip the skin from five rattlesnakes, gut them, parboil the sleek joints. The 20 freshmen ate, wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Klein, Platz | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...flood had backed up even to the hotel. It had flung back the sandbag dikes, swept through the doors, put out the kitchen fires, was attacking the carpets of the foyer, had begun to drool into the dining-room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rain God | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter of the late Dr. Hugo Münsterberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bichloride of Mercury | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

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