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...Hitler, with his tattered lackey, Mussolini, at his tail and Admiral Darlan frisking by his side, pretends to build out of hatred, appetite and racial assertion a new order for Europe. Never did so mocking a fantasy obsess the mind of mortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Peace, No Rest, No Parley | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...tiny farm, but farming exasperated the most coldly efficient political brain of his century. In 1513 Machiavelli took time out from manuring his fields and in a few months finished the Prince. "Necessity . . . impelled the dedication" to Lorenzo Medici. Lorenzo did not open the book, though he ordered a lackey to take Machiavelli two bottles of wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Politician | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Snuff for Ulcers. Peptic ulcers are erosions of the wall of the stomach or duodenum caused by excessive secretion of pepsin, hydrochloric acid and other powerful digestive juices. Dr. Matthew Hill Metz and Robert W. Lackey, Ph.D., of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas, reported that they had healed 55 out of 60 peptic ulcers by giving the patients two-thirds of a grain of powder, ground" from dried pituitary glands of cattle, to sniff four times a day. Injections of pituitary extract directly into the blood stream were tried at first, but they caused disagreeable reactions. Inhalation resulted in slower absorption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patching | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...refute what the Colonel was supposed to have affirmed, Pravda supplied a deposition signed by eleven leading Soviet airmen who called Charles Augustus Lindbergh a "stupid liar, a lackey and a flatterer of German Fascists." "According to information in the highest quarters in London, Paris and Prague," said the Soviet airmen, "the Soviet air fleet is quantitatively at least equal to the combined German and Japanese air forces and is qualitatively much superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Explains Everything! | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Hall, H. Hamlin, T. V. Healey, R. G. Hoye, E. F. Ingalls, A. L. Johns, S. H. Kapner, J. F. Kelley, C. B. King, P. F. Lackey, F. X. Leary, W. Lee, S. A. Anclitz, J. H. Mahoney, R. T. Malone, E. S. Merrill, W. L. Mulcahy, J. G. Palfrey, J. W. Pinkos, P. E. Pratt, D. Prouty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Wins Quadrangular League Championship | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

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