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...father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose crazed imagination the world is like a nightmare under a magnifying glass; Dippy, the pyromaniac, to whom the lighting of a match is like a shot of whiskey; Eddie the pretty pervert, landed in jail because he has over-blackmailed the banker who supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Submerged Tenth | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Rumania one may refer to Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Speed-Fiend Nicholas | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal to small boys, but perhaps they had better not be allowed to see Miss Florence Johns's harrowing portrayal of a dope fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...heroine of this play pines for years while the man whom she loves has a ghastly time with two marriages. He is a purblind fellow, played by Kenneth Harlan (onetime cinemactor), who does not appreciate her allure until she saves him from death at the hands of a dope fiend. Just why he should love her then is problematical. The little child of his first wife enters to assist the final curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...clasp of a cigaret box. When at last the Master Criminal lies dead and the fiance of the daughter of his old friend is restored to society, he punctuates with a tap of his pipe the famed, "Eleementary, Watson, eleementary." Best shot: dinner 'for two in the arch-fiend's cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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