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...came a velvety murmur from some place beneath the dark hat, "I am vairy zorry, I am zo strange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 11/9/1937 | See Source »

...music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry [the dead man], don't." But Mrs. Love did not wake up and doctors continued to nourish her through a vein with a solution of salt and sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Profound Sulks | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...failures, went on from there. And he allowed Julia to marry him, even became quite fond of her. Julia's passion for Michael finally died a natural death. Her Maughamish reaction to the realization that she no longer loved her husband was to stretch, sigh with relief, murmur: "By God, it's grand to be one's own mistress." Now she saw Michael as nothing but a crashing bore, but she had sense enough to stick by him. He was a good manager, a first-rate director. Except for one accidental lapse, Julia was completely faithful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Actress | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...Simpson's historic first glimpse of the then Prince of Wales, at a Naval ball in Coronado on April 7, 1920, Commander Spencer recalled: "I remember the Prince was pointed out to us early in the evening, but neither Wallis nor I commented, except to murmur our surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unprivate Lives | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...murmur of traffic and a muffled clatter of Halloween high jinks floated up one evening last week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Science | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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