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...snapped : "Mother has always felt that way about men in uniform, so naturally she expected me to. ... I was really forced to leave school because the fast conduct of my mother was open gossip. I could not gain entrance to good or fashionable schools because of her notorious past." Mayhem? In New Jersey it was revealed that Mother Hewitt had received some $9,000 of Daughter Hewitt's own income to pay for her sterilization. What surgical procedure had been used remained publicly in doubt. Commonest techniques of female sterilization are to remove the ovaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: $500,000 Operation | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...theatre is just one more racket he can beat. In the course of beating it he reduces his office staff to hysteria, seduces his virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty sayings and an engaging incompetence when wrestling with a trick duffel bag. The audience is likely to take Faber's victims at just about Faber's low and careless appraisal, an effect which Authors Kaghan & Philips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...seen, injected some common sense into this discussion recently when she said, "Men fight because they want to fight." Selling revolvers, pitchforks or store teeth to farmers with a line fence row does not make the gunsmith, hardware dealer or town dentist the cause of the ensuing bloodshed and mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1935 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...While he made "the forgotten man," of Professor William G. Sumner, one of Yale's greatest teachers, a figure in the campaign of 1932, the New Haven Journal-Courier suggests that "Mr. Roosevelt has used some of Sumner's phrases, to be sure, but only by a cruel mayhem on their context." That is undoubtedly true; the new deal runs counter to much of the economics that Sumner taught, also to much that Arthur T. Hadley taught, both as a professor of economics and after he because Yale's president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/15/1934 | See Source »

...Mayhem and yellow faces are allied for eternity in the card files of the Amalgamated American Cinematic Producers Inc. The "Son-Daughter" follows an ancient and well worn path. There are hatchet-men lurking in every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China...

Author: By J. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/17/1933 | See Source »

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