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...mail)?"They must think I got nothing to do but open envelopes. Here's a letter from some guy I pushed into the river once. And look at this?a mash note from some skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: In Newburyport | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...killed her man, Roxie is frightened for a few minutes. But what with the excitement of telling the reporters how she came to do it, the delights of seeing her name right up in big black letters on yellow or pink paper, the merry diversion of raising her skirt and eyebrows at the jury so that they will acquit her, she quite naturally forgets that she has committed a crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Banks it does one of three things. It either drifts off towards the East where it is destroyed by the Gulf Stream or drifts aground, if it is a particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Law Student Tells of Experiences With Icebergs | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...Europa ran into an inky fog over the North Sea, turned back, tried to skirt the fog; failed; came down near Bremen, Germany, slightly damaged. The pilots said that attempting navigation through the fog would have been suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Bremen v. Europa | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Paris, one Renée Valette, 18, leaped from the Eiffel Tower to die, as many another had done successfully. After twirling down 35 feet, her skirt caught on a projection, where she dangled until workmen, scolding, hauled her to security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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