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...bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead was ordered. Quarantine of the entire district was imminent. It was a nauseous vale of murk and putrescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Aftermath | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Silken Shackles (Irene Rich). Behind this horrible title lurks one of the usually nauseous triangle dramas of uneven family life. Thanks to the performance of Miss Rich and the general intelligence of the story and direction, the picture may be endured, perhaps occasionally enjoyed. This wife wearied of her dentist husband and took up with a gentleman who let his hair grow long and played the violin. The couple are overtaken in Trieste and the wife concludes that her sane and comfortable spouse is, perhaps, better after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

CRADLE SNATCHERS?A slightly nauseous (to some) discussion of three females who hire three young men to flirt with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...stickers which explain in bold-faced type that Harvard College is responsible for a bag or a trunk and the manners and personal appearance of the twirp it belongs to are altogether too much for me. The only thing which is worse, and it's nothing short of nauseous, are painted slickers. I saw one yesterday and honestly on it was drawn a big green and red parrot. Above it was a pair of huge tortoise-shelled spectacles and a be-ribboned hat. Well, I was sick. You can forgive Harold Lloyd--he gets paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A GENTLEMAN | 11/6/1925 | See Source »

...week chuckling Communists drained the Samovars of Moscow's lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Different World | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

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