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...showing friends a short cut across sand dunes to the main road from his seaside bungalow. The Associated Press said he fell aboard the yacht Nordsee. The United Press said he was holidaying at his bungalow atop a dune, got out of bed for a stroll in his nightshirt, stumbled in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Martin, a new baritone singing When Did You Leave Heaven; Menjou in a hospital nightshirt. " Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures: Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Such was the lurid story disclosed by Detroit police to the Press last week. Their arrest of 16 Black Legionaries as suspects in the murder of Charles Poole, whose widow denied that he ever beat her, unearthed a sinister and hitherto little known U. S. nightshirt organization. Of late years Southern hillbillies, steeped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Black Legion | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...American War, Mark Twain wisecracked in 1899: "At a public function in a European court all foreign representatives except ours wear clothes which in some way distinguish them. . . . But our representative appears in a plain black swallowtail. . . . It is found in all countries; it is as international as a nightshirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Forum's Fifty | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...dumpy, menacing and studded with nails representing curses against an enemy; 3) a squatting Venus, also from French Gabun. From Dahomey came one of the largest exhibits, the iron war god in the lobby, nearly life-size and wearing a strange spiked hat and a garment like a pleated nightshirt. His raised left arm looked as if he were signaling over his shoulder with his thumb, like any hitchhiker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Works of Fear | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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