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...Marxes, but now find them dullish, it will be good news that the brothers have some new routines. 1) Shipboard routine: Hysteria is built up by putting four people and a trunk in a cabin intended for one person .and suitcase, then bringing in stewards, manicurists, telephone repairmen, et al. 2) Landing routine: The stowaways, minus passports, cut the beards from three sleeping notables, glue them on, enjoy a public welcome until voiceless Harpo, called on for a speech, stalls by drinking water from the speakers' table, washes off his beard. 3) Opera routine: At the premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...fibres of the acoustic nerve, a soft strand the diameter of a slate pencil. In Ménière's Disease only the balancing mechanism of the ear is impaired and all that is essential is to cut only the fibres which conduct balancing sensations. Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success?to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meniere's Disease | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...York City last year 198 Consolidated Gas Co. meter-readers, repairmen and collectors on their daily rounds were bitten, nipped or chewed by dogs badly enough to need medical attention. Last week they and their 20,000 fellows were studying a pamphlet specially prepared for them by Dogman Frank F. Dole on "Dogs: How to Approach and Handle Them." Rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Back-Door Etiquet | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...Slang term meaning electric current, used by doorbell repairmen, high school radio tinkerers, baffled babbitts. Astute Engineer Ogle would never be guilty of using such a misnomer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Able Ogle | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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