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...Corp. In 1932 when this arch-promoter was backing the sale of securities in packages of one share each in 25 or 50 companies, he confidently expected his merchandise to become the "Ford of the American investment business." When he was pushing his Elektrolite cigaret lighter, he used to rub his hands over the 120,000,000 U. S. birthdays as prospective gift sales, crowing: "Give me 5% of them and I'll make $10,000,000." A sworn foe of Wall Street, which warmly reciprocates his sentiments, he once declared: "I'm no angel but these directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hupmobile Adventure | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Clean and rub furniture--Take in and pile wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master's Instructions Women For Hired Servant of 1814 Acquired by Widener Library From Heirs of John Pratt | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

...ladies who chuckled and wiped their eyes appreciatively over All Passion Spent will rub their spectacles and frown before they get far into The Dark Island. A creative experiment of a more ambitious sort than Novelist Sackville-West has tried hitherto, The Dark Island adds a dubious but disturbing hypothesis in the case of woman as she might be in a world that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gynecomorphic Goddess | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...gives his patient a sip of barium sulphate in thick cream and a moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stomach Wrinkles | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...hour and ten minutes, Londos last week turned his back on his opponent, reached across his own shoulder to seize Brown ing's head, tossed him over his shoulder in a "flying mare." After three "flying mares," Champion Browning was too sore and puzzled to do more than rub his neck. Champion Londos seized him by the crotch, spun him in the air, dropped him on the canvas, fell on top, pinned his shoulders to the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Londos v. Browning | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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