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...Hang me! Hang me if you want," screamed Yvette at this final insult, "but make him stop!" "Shut up," implored her long-suffering father. After that, Yvette cut him dead. At trial's end, Judges Cohn, Speight and Elegant concluded that Yvette was undoubtedly "a psychopathic personality," but sane enough to know what she was doing. They sentenced her to 15 years in the U.S. reformatory at Alderson, W.Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Dialect of the People | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Salt Lake City's Deseret* News (circ. 79,589),published by the Mormon Church, ran a fiery Page One editorial last week denouncing a "flagrant, gratuitous and scurrilous insult to the people who laid the foundation of Utah's greatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Voice in Deseret | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Almost 30 percent of those polled said they used the library so little that they would not be affected by any change, while others echoed the statement of Betty Thompson '53, "Sort of an insult, but practical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Opposes Time Change In Library Book Withdrawal | 3/4/1950 | See Source »

Rummaging petulantly through a pile of loot, the once-polite pair cast aside a handful of unsuitable rings and brooches. "Junk," they murmured, then left with 12 million francs' worth of jewelry. As a parting insult to their uncooperative hostess, they drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Polite Pair | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...melted blubber all over her face. But the Eskimos still had the visiting anthropologist wrong. When Ernenek showed signs of leaving and Asiak made signs of seduction, the visitor dived for the tunnel. Enraged Hunter Ernenek hauled him back by the seat of his pants. "How dare you so insult a man?" roared Ernenek, and bashed out the anthropologist's brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Bears & Men | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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