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...Hoover) has a misguided passion for Baclanova. When she learns that he is rich, she tries to poison him. Swift & certain is the revenge of the Freaks, their faces sullen masks as they move silently through the underbrush, but you are not told how they make of Baclanova the legless, drivelling idiot that you see in the end. The featured players. Leila Hyams and Wallace Ford, have unimportant roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...must be remembered that there are also innumerable women who for long years have been feeding, dressing, guarding an army of derelicts, armless, legless, blind, faceless, gas-etched trunks, and shellshocked, insane minds. You may not often see one. They are kept close, cherished from indecent display, but they exist and THEY are the army of martyrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...most everything we went for. . . Together we turned over most of the loose rock on the island and after much search secured 16 species of reptiles, including, as near as we can tell from Waite's Reptiles of Southern Australia, all the topotype species at least--several geckos, two legless lizards, spring and long-tailed egernias, Amphibolurus, the small python which is common there, etc. . . There were thousands of a dark wedge-tailed Shearwater just about to commence breeding and smaller numbers of a small white-bellied one, which we learned later are described as local races. . . The land birds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reptilian Denizens of Wallaby Islands Succumb to Wiles of Thirsty Entomologists Living at Cannery | 1/6/1932 | See Source »

...happy band of dogs at the dump heap grow quarrelsome until they are all, save Siedoi and mad Tsygan and a big brute called Pirate, shot down to conserve food. He sees the rising of the villagers and peasants, His Majesty the People led by the now legless rascal Peter, and their march upon the Prince's estate, where they hang the Prince's dogs one by one (including lovely Svietlana!) and then hang the Prince and rape the maid and after ransacking the house, set it on fire. Life is then all confused and hungry and bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Like Dogs* | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Snowden, Philip, wizened, pixielike Chancellor of the Exchequer, Labor's bitter-tongued financial expert (TIME, April 29) who shares with legless Major Jack Benn Brunei Cohen the title of Cripple of the House of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Origins Analyzed | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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