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...sleep in his chambers. Lucania and his friends lay down in their cells. Their wives went home. Just after 5 the next morning the judge was roused from his sleep. Lucania & friends shuffled into court in wrinkled clothes. Prosecutor Dewey, on the other hand, bounced in with a fresh shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old-Fashioned Justice | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...concern of Frazier & Lemke. Senior member is big, bald Lynn J. Frazier of Hoople, who sits in the Senate. Junior partner is freckle-faced William Lemke of Fargo, who does business for the firm in the House. Representative Lemke, despite his wrinkled clothes and his frequent need of a shave, has a good command of English, a well-schooled mind, an amiable disposition, a law degree from Yale, a conscientious ability far above the Congressional average. He also fancies Chihuahuas and gladioli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Voice of Voltaire | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Lowe published a lurid booklet named Truth to air her grievances. Twenty-three pages long, Truth is illustrated by photographs of Indian Barnett before and after marriage. In one set he is a dirty old codger living in a squalid hut. In the other he has a shave, a new coat, a mansion, Anna Laura Lowe. Her conclusion: "Jackson Barnett was the smartest and best one of the Indians. He married better and lived better than all the other Indians combined. His eyesight, hearing, memory and intelligence were excellent to the end. He lived a useful and active life until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...been noticing a gleam in the Old Woman's eyes for some time," he confided. "She watches me as I shave, as I light my pipe, as I tie my tie; she hangs around me all the time and keeps glancing into her compact mirror, starting at her profile on the side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding my cane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...other pockets of the University. The president increase will allow the same margin of safety as that which existed in the past two years when approximately $40,000 was cleared, a margin of approximately 4%. On an estimated total of well over $900,000 it is approaching folly to shave this margin when the University makes no provision for losses in the Dinning Hall department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE DEFENSE | 2/25/1936 | See Source »

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