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...this as murder, Sheriff E. L. Cooper and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney James Robertson of Cross County, Ark., called for the best hounds in the state and a posse of huntsmen. They found the pack at dawn, separated Two Toes from his followers, cornered him at noon. Tired, fiery-eyed, froth-mouthed and snarling, he made his last stand in the hollow of the fallen log. He was taken to Memphis, Tenn., to spend the rest of his life in a cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two Toes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...Aboard was King Alfonso XIII, the first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden (TIME, Sept. 24). But what was the tiny speedboat that darted like a water flea after the large ship? Swedes recall that the speedboat drew alongside the Principe Alfonso which, churning the water to soapy froth, stopped. A box was lifted aboard with pulleys. The Principe Alfonso moved on. The impertinent little speedboat shot back toward Stockholm. What did it all mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Knaeckebroed | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...time his Wood was rather Italian. Playwright Leonard Ide uses the episodic development with flashbacks lately popularized by Novelists Wilder & Bromfield. The second episode, with Ralph J. Locke as a French husband whose adjustment to his wife's infidelity shows skilled amorous economics, is the funniest. Otherwise the froth refuses to bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...every society, however perfected, there will always be at the bottom a noxious sediment and at the top an obnoxious froth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Natural Man | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Waves of reform often stir a froth of laughter as they move forward. Lindsey's reform can be criticized in that it seeks to remove immorality by changing morality; also it can be said that, to most people, the two indispensable adjuncts of matrimony are child bearing and the permanence which springs from it, neither of which the companionate theory emphasizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Of True Minds | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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