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Everybody put on masks for the "Carnival of Fun." Corn whiskey was almost as free as Mississippi water and gamblers. secure in the knowledge that Memphis has always been a wide open town, plied a profitable trade. Nowhere was the music madder nor the moonshine stronger than in celebrated Beale Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES 6? CITIES: Good Abode | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...went to the vice president who handled the estate. Said he: "The question is, Mrs. Busby, what will you do to help the estate?" Mrs. Busby was willing to help to the extent of taking only $600 a month. But the more she thought about her plight the madder she got. As soon as she sued the bank cut off the $600 allowance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mel & Esther | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...huge block of Goldman, Sachs and put it away. For the next three years Funnyman Cantor devoted his life to making the mere mention of Goldman, Sachs a sure-fire gag from Broadway to Hollywood.* But the more fun Eddie Cantor had with Goldman. Sachs the madder he got. Finally last year he sued all the partners of the sponsoring firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. for a cool $100,000,000. Other stockholders joined him in the suit, and Wall Street japesters used to annoy Goldman, Sachs telephone operators with requests for "the litigation department." To the dignified partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Downtown | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...tremendous effect upon the growth and form of the face and head which is brought about by extracting the teeth from one side of the jaw of a growing animal. He is also making modern application of Hunter's experiments in pregnant animals, in which the feeding of madder, a yellowish vegetables substance, indicates that future dentistry will begin before the child is born, and proves for the first time that madder fed to a pregnant mother directly effects the bones and teeth of the unborn infant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTHROPOLOGIST FINDS BRAINS ARE TOO LARGE | 1/13/1933 | See Source »

...Pueblo, Col., Gerald Hines told his wife to meet him on a street corner. Gerald Hines went to a corner and waited. His wife did not come. Gerald Hines got madder & madder, so mad that he smashed his fist through a store window. Gerald Hines was taken to a hospital. His wife continued to wait at another corner, the one he had said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Storage | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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