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...bulldog, and Chino, an 18-months-old thoroughbred chowchow. Presently Miss Parker grasped her cane and started to rise from her chair to go into the back yard. Suddenly Chino snapped at her hand. Then he went mad, knocked her down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman broke into the house he found Miss Parker lying unconscious in a pool of blood, Chino tearing the flesh off her arms. The patrolman knocked Chino off with a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mean Chowchow | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Touch the problem of "aged and infirm judges who fail to ... retire or resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seven Sins | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Sole redeeming feature at the University this week is a cleverly worked out mystery yarn, "The Case of the Black Cat", with Ricardo Cortez and Marsha Hunt in the leading roles. The death of an infirm old recluse in a fire, and its connection with the subsequent death by violence of a woman in an apartment house form the basis of the plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...part of the problem of obtaining a sufficient number of judges to dispose of cases is the capacity of the judges themselves. This brings forward the question of aged or infirm judges-a subject of delicacy and yet one which requires frank discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: De Senectute | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...approbation handed down by the country on election day, the signal has been set for full steam ahead and the theories nearest to the hearts of the administration are being rushed to practical completion. Perhaps for the first time in modern history, a nation will see its aged, its infirm and its unemployed transformed from destitute and dangerous drains on the mercies of charity to self-sufficient and responsible citizens. To this end it can only be hoped that the experts on the Social Security board will bend every effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY SWEEPS ON | 11/24/1936 | See Source »

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