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...this Their Majesties, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, laughed hugely, also at Mr. Miller's joke about the tramp who said "Lady, I haven't eaten for three days," and her reply, "Well, my good man, this can't go on-you'll simply have to force yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Command Performance | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Sherifa Achmetashevitch's pearls vanished overnight from the table on which she had left them. Weeks later, a servant spied a pearl in a mousehole, scrabbled about until all were recovered. The mouse that stole them had eaten the catgut string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Arrest | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...many as twenty or thirty persons without regard to color or occupation. Yet there has been no sign from University Hall of any interest in the matter, and persons who work in shark infested waters keep saying without much hope, "Wait till a Harvard professor is eaten by a shark. We'll see some action Then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAN-EATING SHARK | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

...passport holders living within the militia-guarded walls of the spacious, 40-roomed American Embassy in Madrid have eaten few delicacies during the last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sutler's Salvage | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...find thus announced last week by Dr. Julian H. Steward of the Smithsonian Institution was made in a cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake. As the water level in the lake sank, millennium after millennium, the caves around it are supposed to have been eaten out by the action of waves at the shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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