Word: nov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trucksters unloaded one slatted crate its inmate, a zebra, kicked, crashed its head against the slats, stared wildly, piteously about. The ever-watchful American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at once ordered the animal's release. One booth contained the famed Tail Waggers Club (TIME, Nov. n), which offered a dog ensemble, complete from military brushes to overcoat, to the most popular dog in the show, to be decided by public vote. Lord Baltimore, a pekingese. won the outfit. Agents were professionally addressed as pigeon-men, cat-men, fish-men. The pigeon-men traipsed through long...
...duty in Holy Cross Cemetery at Malden. Mass., had to admonish, direct and keep moving the great throngs who came to touch the lowly tomb of Patrick J. Power, a Catholic Priest dead for 60 years and now, to the faithful, a potent worker of healing miracles (TIME, Nov...
Clifford Wittingham Beers and his associates in the great Mental Hygiene movement (TIME, Nov. 25) tacked to a new educational course last week. The past 20 years they have been spreading a general lesson?protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach specifically how to prevent mental and nervous troubles, how to treat and cure developed cases. TIME'S reference to what Yale's President James Rowland Angell said at the mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist...
...English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." British censors had snipped out the kisses between her and her British leading man in The Road to Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted President of the University of Chicago (TIME, Nov. 25), had her appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London, had an abscess in his throat lanced, was unable to go to Sandringham to see his second cousins...
During the football game with Princeton, burglars had forced and entered an upper window at Pach's. Hurried or casual passers-by remembered seeing the sacred fence being lowered to the street. On a stool in the studio was found page 26 of the Nov. 1 issue of Life, pinned down with a meat knife. The page contained a sketch showing a burglar, while his colleague comes down their ladder with swag, whispering to a policeman: "Shhh. We want this to be a surprise...