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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Striding to a nearby cafe, Mr. Bergdoll ordered a bottle of wine for every policeman and court official at Mosbach. Amid cheers, he departed by motor for Ebersbach, his usual centre of activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bergdoll Triumphant | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Another policeman reported that a "134-hour dance" by one Alvarado Fernandez had resulted in his complete collapse after 26 hours, although female admirers were following him about the floor, spraying him with restorative eau de Cologne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Craze Suppressed | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...third policeman announced that 100 "hunger artists" were waiting in the chief's outer office. Each desired a license to fast publicly in a glass case. Each hoped to break the 44-day German professional fasting record, now held by one Herr Jolly. Simultaneously came a wire from Leipzic with the news that a local faster had been caught sucking nourishment through a rubber tube on the 26th day of his fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Craze Suppressed | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

Simultaneously a raging crowd of Fascists were paying no attention to the sex or age of his would-be assassin. As a policeman tried to drag her to safety, sharp fingernails clawed at her neck, her arms. The mob was on the point of ending her life by crunching slimy means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Trionfante | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...following review of the St. Patrick's, or Policeman's, issue of the Lampoon was written for the Crimson by F. P. Collier, famous cartoonist and creator of Otto Grow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT'S UH PEACH", SAYS OTTO GROW OF NEW LAMPY | 3/23/1926 | See Source »

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