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...Fattig stands ready to eat what the customer did. Most cases concern drowned bugs and Curator Fattig has convinced many a jury that creatures drowned in carbonated beverages are harmless. For Coca-Cola and other soft-drink makers he has eaten over 10,000 such creatures, including grasshoppers, crickets, sow bugs, snails, toads, frogs, caterpillars, earthworms, salamanders, tiger beetles, click beetles, praying mantes, stink bugs, kissing bugs, bumblebees and poisonous Central American centipedes. Once he added a flair by eating a black widow spider alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Coca-Cola Curator | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silk Purse | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...have destroyed a great deal more than that. . . . You are liberal-minded, and will destroy liberalism; for, as a professedly liberal emperor, smiling and amiable, you will establish yourself as a tyrant, in order to keep yourself firmly seated in the saddle. . . . You, a man who hates bloodshed, will sow the seeds of bloodshed. . . . You are not a man to be envied . . . for your good fortune is not a sun or a fire, but only a miner's lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Napoleon No. 3 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...garden and a sow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eggs Into Electricity | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...Malo raised a sow from the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beasts & Saints | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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