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...parade was sized up very well by a young lady in a green dress who stood in front of the Blackstone for half an hour," said Sportswriter Damon Runyan. "She said, finally: 'Well, it isn't so exciting, but it saves us hearing a lot of complaint from Paw tonight about his sore feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Show | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...Byron, Bryan and a man named Bugg. He told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate to a long legendary account of Roland of Roncesvalles who "guarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Heffle | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...YOUTHFUL TRAINER DEMONSTRATING MAN'S POWER OVER FEROCIOUS BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE." While lurid red lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage and the beast receives a whiplash. Two laconic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...million years has a normal guinea pig had five toes on each foot. It has had four toes on each front paw, three toes on each hind paw, a total of fourteen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Guinea Pig Toes | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

Jubilant at this unexpected, glorious news, the party workers rushed to tell Uncle Arthur who sat up in bed, had his back gently slapped, his big paw shaken. Actually the sick leader had been defeated. His hard-swearing, quarter-deck-pacing opponent, Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V. C. retired, Conservative, who commanded British "Mystery Q Ships" during the War, had won Burnley by 8,209 votes. At "The Old Bull," when this terrible truth was known, party workers could not bring themselves to face the Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monstrous Majority | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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