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...Jelliffe's collaborator, Dr. White, testified to the insanity by which Clarence Darrow got life imprisonment for Chicago's pervert-murderers Leopold and Loeb in 1924. *Correct answer, according to Dr. Jelliffe: "One has feathers and the other has wings." †Which Dr. Jelliffe said everyone knows are not fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bird, Ox, Horse, Lobster, Shark | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...suit and a "wad", he becomes a gentleman for a day. He meets Joan Blondell, a stage dancer (or chorus girl) who needs sixty dollars to reach her troupe in Salt Lake City and plays "Santa Claus for once in his life", unaware that Dr. Bernard, a fiendish old pervert in love with Joan is following them. Lady Luck further sets the stage when Doug's pal finds a check and draws out an innocent-looking violin case which is full of counterfeit money. With both Dr. Bernard and the counterfeiters on his trail Doug displays his acrobatic inheritance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/15/1932 | See Source »

...which eventually put District Attorney Charles Whitman in the Governor's chair. Swirled up from the nether depths by this inquiry was a plump little 40-year-old German named David Maier. He had been a brothel keeper. During the investigation he had offered a hostile witness $50 to pervert his testimony. In March 1914, David Maier went to trial for bribery. On the witness stand he was asked and answered these questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Seaburysickness | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...post-War youth, morals, manners. Its upshot: that sanity and simplicity are best, wine better than gin, old-fashioned love better than new-fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped upbringing, on which Author Marlow raises the curtain little by little as the story goes on. A child when the War began, he was old enough to feel but not understand what it meant when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post-War Type | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Mike and his gang played in vacant lots when they could, but mostly in the street. Once one of them was attacked by a pervert. Mike's little sister was killed by a truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghetto | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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