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...reels. Graves a chance to show that he is not a coward all the time. A silly but kinetic melodrama, War Correspondent is distinguished by the presence of the most revolting Chinaman who has ever appeared in cinema. Fang (Tetsu Komai) is so horrible that his prisoners begin to squeal and jabber as soon as they look at him. His table manners are such that when he gobbles the hindquarters of a pig he seems to be a cannibal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1932 | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...waggles her mouth, spurts milk. Snuffles is a sow, Betsy and Percy her bloated shoats. Biddy is a hen who has traveled to England (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930). Biddy and Belle phonographically declare what they like to eat. Snuffles pleads for clean pastures. The shoats squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fly Time | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...quizzical beady eyes or grunting angrily he is sent running over a long viaduct to the packing house. When he reaches the killing floor he is hoisted up on a giant wheel by his left foot, delivered to a conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rising Hogs | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...Paddy Mack, Boston wrestler: a bout with one Mustapha Pasha; when a spectator tossed a lighted cigaret into Mustapha Pasha's open mouth, causing him to squeal, choke, lie flat on his back; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Who Won | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Startled by a squeal, Horace Holden turned his head, saw a sight that throttled him. He stamped on his brakes and lunged toward the back seat. Old Laborer Smith was pressing a knife blade against the throat of Spitz Fluffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Thriller | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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