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...first of its kind in the U. S.,? became a minor collectors' item. Mad Man's Drum's story is simple in outline, but Artist-Author Ward this time makes some of his sequences unnecessarily obscure. As before, he is decorative, eerily suggestive, reminiscent of morbid cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairy Tale Among Factories* | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...There they hanged him from an oak tree-16th lynching in the U. S. this year, Georgia's second in the fortnight. After shooting at the suspended body, the mob cut it down, tied it to the truck, dragged it to and around the Thomasville square while a morbid crowd looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Lynching No. 16 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...Stevens Hotel ballroom, jostled about among friends in lobbies, listened to many a long speech. Sad-eyed Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala., A. B. A. president, welcomed delegates with assurances that constitutional liberty was still safe in the land, that "visions of social strife are but phantasmagoria of morbid brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Chicago Convention | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...where they hoped to start in business. Their cult forbids traveling on the Sabbath. They stopped over at Wagon Mound. That Friday night Charles Geist dreamed that he was dead. So moved was he that next morning he broke another Sabbath law. He wrote his wife Gussie of his morbid dream. A few hours later a tornado swept through Wagon Mound, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...Morbid apprehension of being in an enclosure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Repeal & Return | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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