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...other animals. No incisions are made on top of the tail. If flexor muscles were cut eight or ten inches from the base of the tail it would look really phooey. Incisions are made under profound anesthesia and with a knife so small that the slit in the skin can scarcely be seen. I don't know where you got your description but if New York vets are as bad as that I pity the horses. If you tried to find out something about our profession you would be surprised at how nice we are- quite humane, really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...stocky, slit-eyed San Francisco lawyer by the name of Harold Louderback could thank Senator Samuel Shortridge of California for the Federal judgeship President Coolidge handed him in 1928. Samuel Shortridge Jr., son of the Republican Senator, thanked Judge Louderback for the fat receivership fees he was handed in his court. Last week the House thanked New York's swart little La Guardia, watchdog of the U. S. Judiciary, for digging up evidence that resulted in Judge Louderback's impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Eleventh Impeachment | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

With their garments slit, their locks tousled, an orthodox Jewish family mourns its dead by sitting shivah-in stocking feet, on rough boxes instead of chairs-during the first seven days. For eleven months after the death there is daily Kaddish, a prayer in the synagog, usually led by a son or daughter of the deceased. Some rabbis chant a routine, blanket Kaddish at the end of services, for all the congregation's dead. After eleven months the deceased is presumed to be redeemed by these prayers, to pass on from Gehenna (Hell) to Heaven. On the twelvemonth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kaddish Suit | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...that what a great many Irish Catholics and Protestants really want is a union of the whole island under the Prince of Wales as Head of the State! Jockey Beary described how, before he was admitted to talk with President de Valera, he was peered at through a steel slit in the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tale of a Jockey | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty & the Baker | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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