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...part series last month on "the Southwest's culture and crime center." It contained little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Turnabout | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Saint's Saints | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...assumed his real figure of an insatiable Shylock, his representative in Europe-for Norman Davis is playing the role of a super-Ambassado-is interfering between France and Germany and between France and Italy. . . . Europe's foreign politics seem to be to the United States a kind of hellbroth into which Mr. Hoover, like Macbeth's witches, keeps pouring new poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debts, Disarmament & Davis | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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