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...Maine hunting lodge; points the grisly finger of suspicion at nearly everybody and finally solves the situation by showing that there was a radio transmitter in the room when the murder happened, and the police were listening intently all the time. All this produces an alternating current of shiver and laugh, but none too strong a current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile up in Peekskill near the Bear Mountain Bridge across the Hudson the gentry shiver each night as they prepare to go to bed. They fear a repetition of the Dover disaster from the Navy arsenal at lona Island, a mile away. Perhaps Manhattan citizens tremble as they recall the terrors of Dover if they know about the arsenal at nearby Sandy Hook. Other death dealing overstocked plants include the arsenals near Pittsburgh, Springfield, Mass., Augusta, Fort Monroe, Va., Philadelphia, Rock Island, Watertown, Mass., San Antonio and many another town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Expensive Economy? | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...There are two types in the woman's movement today, feminists and social workers. The social welfare people think about infant care, etc., while the feminists are out all the time for equal rights. Therefore, the sight of you makes tho social welfarers shiver. Keep these women out. You are dangerous they say, and so you were barred We all know now where our spiritual homes lie and we are one body. We are the feminists of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Great Affairs | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...introducing poison into the drugs prescribed for them by their physicians. Her first and most revolting murder was accomplished when she poisoned her fiance, "for the pleasure of watching his death agony," and celebrated over his corpse the dread "Mass of Satan." It was the latter which made France shiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Extraordinary Murderess | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Once there was a dance called the Chicago, a graceless thing of scissoring hips, jutting elbows and wild necks. It is gone now, its very memory erased by a lithe barbaric jungle shiver, to which the gentle city of Charleston lent its name, and which has now brought a savage and quite inappropriate glory to the city of Charleston. Recently Mayor Thomas Stoney of Charleston, the Mayor's wife and ten members of his cabinet journeyed to Chicago to attend the first national Charleston championship contest, and to award the silver loving cups to the winners. The Mayor said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 22, 1926 | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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