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...didn't think the benefits of tutoring quite worth the price. Such skeptics will feel better on learning that the tutors themselves believe in them as satisfactory methods of raising that grade, even if they do get the service at cost. When the patent medicine man drinks his own poison, that's news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold & Death | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Unhappy were the King & Mrs. Simpson when she began to receive last week anonymous notes postmarked in London's fashionable Mayfair and threatening her life. Many were written in such cultivated terms as to suggest that some of the poison-penpushers may very well be peeresses or at least English gentlemen with a public school background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unprivate Lives (Cont'd) | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Peace in the Archipelago hung in the balance. Sultan Wasit was popular with the great majority of his people. If they once come to believe that Dayang Dayang or her Filipino friends conspired to poison him, Moros from Borneo, Celebes and Java can be expected to come to the aid of their brothers in the Sulu Archipelago. Then the day of the Moros' inevitable revolt against the masters they despise will be at hand, a struggle which the Moros, outnumbered and unarmed, cannot win, but in which they as born fighting men will doubtless take heavy toll of cocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Wasit to Paradise | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...nervous desire for his praise and a respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on the night of his attempted suicide he poured out his story to Caulaincourt alone while the sweat broke out on his sunken features and he waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place of the dignified Roman death he had courted, he spent the night vomiting, begging Caulaincourt to give him another potion, spinning out his disconnected, feverish explanation of his rise and fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Troublemaker's Troubles | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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