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Near Salisbury, Md., Vance Butler bought an abandoned graveyard for $200, opened a vault, found $30,000 in old gold, silver, currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...wife was a bad w-m-n. When Barney discovered the facts he killed her and her lover, was sentenced to a convict camp for life. But he did not stay long. Told off to help bury yellow-fever victims in a nearby town, Barney made a graveyard break and got away. In his flight he met up with a lovely virgin, conveniently orphaned by the epidemic. Naturally they fell in love. In a Western mining town they married, soon became most popular members of the community. Barney was happy but he smelt rats. Just as they were planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Illiterature | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Just as "Lord" Timothy decorate home. "Lord" Andrew rigged up a line of oldtime bedroom crockery on the ridgepole of his house, planted a graveyard in the front yard with names of his opponents on the tombstones. Fascinated Newburyport elected him its Mayor. He won a second term. Contrary to Newburyport tradition, he stood for election a third time last week. This time, shocked by his brawling, his publicity junket to the Pacific Coast, his high-handed method or turning the municipal administration over to his cronies, Newburyport did not vote "Lord" Andrew a single ward. Into the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of Lord Andrew | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...exactly the emotional effect of any film, can cut out the 'dead' spots, and generally improve the pictures distributed." A live spot in Frankenstein as revealed by the "Lie-Detector": one in which the ugly face of Frankenstein's dwarfish assistant pops up from behind a graveyard fence. Dead spots: the reappearance of the dwarf's face in subsequent scenes when familiarity has made it less frightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, left yesterday for West Point, where he will attend the funeral of Cadet Richard Brinsley Sheridan this afternoon. The services will be held in the chapel of the Military Academy and interment will be in the Academy graveyard, where many famous soldiers and generals have been buried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BINGHAM LEAVES TO ATTEND CADET SHERIDAN'S FUNERAL | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

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