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...when his wife was asleep, he would come to my bed and try to get in beside me. . . . When he got in one side of the bed, I jumped out the other. He would run after me, trying to rape me." Attorney Norman Becker asked why she did not scream. "I didn't want to wake my sister." Attorney Robert Cantwell Jr. asked why she did not leave the Feiler household. "They needed somebody to take care of their daughter." Attorney Becker asked if her sister ever found out about these nocturnal chases. "Yes, I would tell her every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Frustratress | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...American Bureau for Medical Aid to China this week releases for its first Manhattan showing a Key Scott film on the bombing of Chungking. The film has the shortcomings of most camera-eye reports: it does not stink, like gangrene, nor scream, like a child shot through the stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First Aid in China | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Typical bit of BBC whimsey which will be aired on the show: three actors will stand before a mike talking while an announcer circles them preparatory to sticking one of them with a pin. All three will scream, and listeners will be asked to tell which one was stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fun in Britain | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...talks will not be attempts to wave the flag or to make the eagle scream," Dennett guaranteed. The purpose he announced, is to stimulate interest in Americanization by a skillful presentation of material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH WILL SEND SPEAKERS TO TEACH ALIENS | 11/6/1940 | See Source »

...cynical G. P. U. agents, or of the Spanish peasants liquidating their local bourgeoisie: "And I saw the priest with his skirts tucked up scrambling over a bench and those after him were chopping at him with the sickles and the reaping hooks . . . and there was another scream and another scream and I saw two men chopping into his back with sickles. . . ." However he may fancy himself as a leftist sympathizer, as a great and sensitive artist Ernest Hemingway is well over the Red rash. The bell in this book tolls for all mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in Spain | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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