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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not eat a pound of cooked human flesh for $750,000 [TIME, May 13]? Tell these scientists, or whoever it is, they need not look further, as I will do it, providing it is the flesh of a man, white preferred. I would also like to designate the hour of the meal be evening, place, a ringside table where a good lively show is on, or the Pennsylvanians doing their best. I would also like to have the privilege of planning the rest of the menu to cat with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...When it was founded most bankers hesitated to accept women's accounts because bank lobbies were usually crowded with male customers "among whom it is not agreeable for a lady to penetrate." Fifth Avenue Bank thought differently. It built a handsome parlor where ladies could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided threaded needles. Black-bonneted dowagers drove their carriages up to the bank by the hundreds to enter their names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mourning on Fifth Avenue | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...prove the power of mind over matter, and equally anxious--in the interests of science, of course--to disprove the learned Columbia professor's theory that one would refuse to eat a worm for a thousand dollars Dudley N. Hartt, Jr. '37 gave a demonstration in the Dunster House Dining Hall yesterday evening which showed conclusively that given a certain amount of stimulation one can eat even more gastrically fatal things than a nice fresh worm. Before a roomful of awed waitresses and a horrified steward, who took the act to be a personal insult, the talented Sophomore casually emptied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT DRINKS INK SOUP TO DISPROVE WORM THEORY | 6/12/1935 | See Source »

...Negro takes to the woods the landlord rounds up a posse. At dawn, directed by the sharecropper, they find their quarry, shoot him down from a tree. The sharecropper, his stomach full of two horrible deaths in one night, goes home to breakfast, but for once he cannot eat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap South | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

Said Relief Pitcher Sylvester Johnson of Philadelphia: "I missed my usual steak dinner. I know I can get it after the game but who wants to eat a big steak and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night Game | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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