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...have the operation without an anesthetic, so you could see how the animals feel that you have tortured all these years? You will have an awful body in the next incarnation. . . . You have one foot in the grave now and the other foot on a banana peel, you old fiend." Remarked Surgeon Keen: "I take it that the letter is from a woman. If so I pity her possible husband. The fun of the thing is that I never have been a research worker. I have never experimented on any animal, not even a mouse or a frog. I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Keen Flayed | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Last week Dr. Lambert was obliged, and cheerfully so, to admit that he had erred two years ago. As head of the checking-up committee he had discerned that sly drug fiends had pretended cure to escape detention and get their dope in full freedom. But by prying, during the past few months, into their skulking solitudes, his committeemen found the narcosan-injected, drug-deprived addicts secretly twitching, gritting teeth, rolling eyes, gripping griped abdomens- all in the usual torments of deprivation. Narcosan did them no good. It was too bad, for curing a dope fiend by standard methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcosan Rejected | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...then a murd'rous villain, a fiend with heart of stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mail Order Songs | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...SILENT HOUSE-A fiend in need is a fiend indeed (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...trial for witchcraft (Increase Mather and many another divine officiating), an old medicine woman swears this pirate who so cleverly duped Doll with his talk of Hell, was none other than her earthly son. Doll of course denies his earthliness, swears it is carnal knowledge of a fiend she has, and convicts herself of her witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poppets | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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