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...down and the owner is considered in peril of death. If a dog is remarkably lucky at hunting, it is thought to be catching game to be served at its owner's funeral. Aberrations in the behavior of animals, sexual and otherwise, are to be dreaded. If dogs mate indoors, or with pigs, they are set down as wizards and disposed of at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powers Unseen | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...Moscow last week the Widow Lenin put in her 2? worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus, called "Zags," and they had the entire sympathy of the Widow Lenin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Zags Jammed | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...months after the new Vice President took office, Mr. Hearst's contact men, James T. Williams Jr. and John A. Kennedy, used to call often on Mr. Garner. Now their visits are few & far between. Nominee Roosevelt made a different mistake. He feared that his running mate might make the ticket look ridiculous. So the Brain Trust sent a bright journalist, Charles Hand, to act as censor of the Garner utterances. To a man who had been a practicing politician when Roosevelt was in short pants, this was the ultimate insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Commonsense | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...cinematic running mate called "$10 Raise," supplies the perfect antidote for all this. Edward Everett Horton is a meticulous office-clerk who needs this precise advancement in his wordly fortunes in order to marry Karen Morley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/21/1935 | See Source »

...still warm organ of a young girl murdered by their assistant, and another in which they impregnate her with crackling life from a lightning bolt brought down on gigantic kite-cables. The synthetic woman (Elsa Lanchester) lives to demonstrate complete distaste for the monster intended as her mate before she is blown jnto eternity with Dr. Pretorius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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