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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that its eyeballs popped out. Finally he left, taking Ruth Duvall with him. Some 30 hours later the girl was found, naked, outside a cabin in the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: People v. Shepherd | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...said that my poetry had just one fault. He said that my supreme ability to feel, which he thought was greater than in any other girl's poetry he had ever read, had conquered everything else. Do you see? In the great wave of emotion, which overflows all our psychological dikes into the cistern that we call "poetry", I was slowly but surely drowning myself. "Your surrender is always too complete," he said. "You give too much, always." (No, I like this way better...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

That was the kind of talk I like. I had a talk that was something like that, once, with a man from Yale. He said to me: "You're the girl who disproves Lloyd Mayer...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...What can a poor girl do against the Yale line? I only laughed...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

Bebe Daniels in "What a Night" supplies more laughs than are usually forth-coming in what the producers label "comedy". She and Neil Hamilton carry on as the girl and boy reporters who snag the big news story of the year. The prize incident is when The Boy spills a bottle of ink down his trouser leg. "It's only ink" says She, as she watches it trickle. Does one laugh in a case like that...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

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