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SOME DAY I'LL KILL You-Dana Chambers-Dial ($2). Murder and mayhem in the Connecticut countryside. Fast and witty, despite the somewhat Flash Gordon plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: February Mysteries | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...reaction of the spectators indicates that we are all still more or less barbarians and cannibals. Some onlookers are genuinely dumfounded at the mass mayhem they are seeing, but the majority enjoy themselves mightily, exhorting the contestants to "chop that goalie into little pieces," "rip off his leg if he tries that again," "give him a good one right between the eyes...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Juries, judges and scared defendants last week cleared court dockets of four celebrated samples of espionage, murder, mutiny, mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wages of Sin | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Only one living artist has deliberately matched his art against the superhuman mayhem of air bombing. Picasso did it for the Spanish Government building at last year's Paris Exposition with a 22-ft. by 10-ft. mural, Guernica, which nobody enjoyed and nobody forgot. Last month this painting and 67 auxiliary sketches were exhibited at London's New Burlington Galleries, quickly became the sensation of the opening season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: London Greys | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Elephants never forget, and the memory of the first half mayhem was too much for the battered proboscides. Although Captain Bob Prario played an outstanding game backing up the Eliot line, stopped from crashing through for the third counter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS WIN 26 TO 0; DUDLEY TOPS DUNSTER | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

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