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...bathroom of his Washington home, Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson, 73, skidded, bumped broke a rib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

With his hands sprained, his lower lip slashed and a rib fractured, King Leopold crawled from the car and over to the body of his wife. He could see that she was already dead, her skull fractured, her chest gashed with broken glass. Aides following in a second car rushed hastily back for an ambulance while King Leopold, dazed and bloody, stood looking down at his dead Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Death of Astrid | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...Veal Leg and rump .29 .24 Breast .19 .14 Shoulder .24 .16 Cutlets .45 .39 Beef Rib roast .34 .24 Sirloin roast .42 .32 Chuck with bone .31 .21 Porterhouse steak .50 .44 Sirloin steak .41 .36 Round steak .42 .33 Chuck steak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Butcher Boycott | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

With whiskers and side-burns flying merrily in the breeze that tear-jerking, soul-saving mellerdramer of the roaring forties, "The Drunkard" mounts the D. U. stage in handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly hilarious bit of eighteenth century Americana. Backed by a variety of well designed stage settings the drama runs its solid simple course. The handsome Yale collegian (Robert Reed) meets the fair maiden and before the first act is out they have settled down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: THE D. U. | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

...operator of the elevators in the control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of the Last | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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