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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charmed with their drowsy man-mountain, the Lilliputians rig up a conveyor belt to feed him, entertain him with a stage show in which a peewee ballet dances, a morose tenor sings a superb ballad (My Little Lilliput Girl) and a troupe of midgets, as small to the Lilliputians as the Lilliputians are to Gulliver, caper mysteriously in front of him. When a stage manager hits a midget with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...band itself, the members feel; should not be required to pay their expenses since they have to pay dues to keep the until together besides buying their won uniforms. It is at least certain that the Harvard Club of New York will entertain the group of dinner if it decides to take the trip

Author: By R. W. Paul, | Title: RADICAL CHANGES MADE IN "A" STARTING LINEUP | 11/1/1935 | See Source »

Although still in a formulative stage plans are being made by Ronald M. Ferry '12, Master of Winthrop House, to entertain members of Davenport College over the Yale game week-end. The masters of the four other Houses said that they had informal relations with housing units at Yale, but as yet have made no definite arrangements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INVITATIONS ISSUED TO MEN IN YALE COLLEGES | 10/11/1935 | See Source »

Most of the 4,000 doctors who do business on Manhattan Island, where they have the richest and poorest people in the world for patients, last week refused to entertain a suggestion to charge only $1 for office calls, $2 for tenement calls. Their average charge now is $5 for office, $10 for apartment calls. As for patients who cannot afford $5 and $10 fees, the Manhattan doctors whom Dr. Daniel S. Dougherty, secretary of the New York County Medical Society, sounded out, indicated that they would put them on their private charity lists or send them to public charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not for $1 | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...hotel, made the place a health resort. In 1825 John Clarke, who started the first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered 100,000 costive, gouty, giddy visitors a summer season. To entertain the visitors the Saratoga racetrack was built and gambling establishments were opened. To contain a Saratoga season's clothing and finery the huge Saratoga trunk was invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Saratoga Spa | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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