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...this heinous offense to the shades of Holmes† the writer (who turned out to be Professor Moriarty) was fired. He made a successful escape from the office, jumped in a passing hansom cab, and rumbled off over the wet cobblestones into...
Next, go to your radio set. Approach the object with all the pent up sneer you can muster. (This last direction is straight from Frend.) Then, with rapidly successive strokes, pluck each shiny tube from its smug receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...
Sirs: For a heinous-looking human being, the record was held until the Dec. 22 issue of TIME by "The Angel" (wrestler) when Admiral Yamamoto topped him badly on front cover. GORMAN L. BURNETT Lynchburg...
Lanky, lame, cranky, 65-year-old Charles Grey Grey,* editor for 28 years of Britain's top aviation magazine, The Aeroplane, last week brought down the wrath of Britons on himself for no more heinous crime than writing rudely about the U.S. When Editor Grey has not been rumpusing with the British Air Ministry, he has injected into his technical publication noisy U.S.-baiting ("the civilized world and the United States of America"). Sometimes he has combined the two. In 1938, when the British bought 400 U.S. planes, Editor Grey called it "a disgraceful deal," yammered that "to order...
Many a modern psychiatrist believes that trying to make a left-handed child write with his right is a crime only less heinous than making him eat spinach. Their theory: switching hands upsets a child emotionally, often causes stuttering. Last week a graduate student at Syracuse University threw doubt on this theory. Prompted by Professor Harry J. Heltman, chairman of Syracuse's School of Speech, Graduate Student Elizabeth Daniels had examined 1,594 Syracuse freshmen, learned that...