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Billy didn't waste much time. Cramming his half eaten dog into Vag's hand, he scrambled onto the platform. At the game time Vag sniffed the wiener carelessly, trying to look as if he weren't with anybody. It smelled so good he took a size able bite, and hoped Billy wouldn't notice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

These disdainful words appeared last August in a London Times editorial. Last week they might well have been eaten by their author. As produced by Mr. Goldwyn, directed by William Wyler and acted by Merle Oberon, Lawrence Olivier, David Niven and Flora Robson, Wuthering Heights is not only readily identifiable with the book but one of the season's distinguished pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...captain, started the fad sweeping U. S. campuses, as raccoon coats did some 10 years ago, as the Veterans of Future Wars did in 1936. In Withington's room in Holworthy Hall one night last month conversation turned on his aquarium. Freshman Withington boasted that he had once eaten a goldfish. A classmate remarked it would be worth $10 to see the feat repeated. Thereupon young Withington seized one of his pets by the tail, popped it into his mouth, chewed well, won his reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goldfish Derby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...next morning they were aroused by the landlady, who was very much distracted. "You've eaten the dog's meat!" she howled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...Simpson immediately packed her off to a ward, ordered a big meal from the hospital kitchen while he questioned Mrs. Barber. He found that although she had eaten enough in the past year to feed a family of ten, she had lost 25 pounds. After a preliminary examination Dr. Simpson thought that Mrs. Barber's pancreas might be functioning abnormally, that it might be burning up too much sugar in her blood and somehow causing an excessive flow of digestive juices, which sharpened her appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Starving Glutton | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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