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...proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man Who Won the War | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...This bribing of other nations to blockade Italy economically in the name of the League of Nations is a gross and unprecedented breach of the laws of neutrality," continued London's Evening News. "The Garden of Eden, as everybody knows, was ruined by a snake. The sanctioneers' Eden, it would appear, is to be saved by a pig-and a Yugoslavian pig at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pigs in Policy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...opera's prolog Lulu is represented by a fearsome wriggling snake, an eternal destroyer, according to Composer Berg who makes her just as horrid in every scene which follows. She destroys one man after another, commits a murder which lands her in prison, weasels her freedom only to philander in Paris with gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Provocative Lulu | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...gypped, had a fight, broken a leg, had a party, caught cold, been robbed, had company, been married, bought a car, been visiting, broken an arm, been courting, been divorced, been arrested, stolen anything, gone bughouse, lost your hair, had a birthday, had an anniversary, been bitten by a snake, had an accident, cut a new tooth or had an operation- Get in touch with a representative of the Gazette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Drunk? Divorced? Dead? | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Major game in the Southwest Conference was Rice v. Texas at Austin. Between halves, Jesse Jones, Governor Allred, Elliott Roosevelt put on sweaters to lead a snake dance. Distinguished by frantic forward passing, long penalties for roughing, clipping and slugging, four touchdowns in the last quarter, it ended 28-to-19, for Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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