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...mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting world revolution for their own mysterious ends. When the roof leaked and the rain stained his bedroom ceiling, Bengt thought the stain looked like a mocking, Jewish profile. When his sister went to pieces, called him an affected young prig, he tried to remember to be ruthless, disciplined, to fix his eyes on the day the fascists would take power and all decay and misery would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocked Swede | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Attorney General Russell Hardy opened with a blast that the $660,000,000 assets of the defendants had been "maliciously and unconscionably used" to "crush" Fanchon & Marco, who had "suffered losses to date exceeding $200,000." Said he: "The conduct of the defendants in this case has put a stain on a great industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lawsuit in St. Louis | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...movement she drove it home, straight downwards through the naked breast, up to the hilt, then drew it out and cast it down on the plank. . . . With a raucous cry Marat fell backwards . . . stiffened in agony, his eyes staring, his tongue protruding and blood gushing from the gash" to stain the water of his bath. Death was instantaneous, for the blow, clean and skillful, traversed the lung and opened the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathtub Killer | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...time of the year there appear, in various newspapers and magazines all over the U. S., criticisms ... of the conferring of honorary degrees. Some of these criticisms are quite evidently made by people who are sincere and honest in their judgment. Upon others there may easily be seen the stain of sour grapes. Others indicate a rather pathetic misunderstanding of the situation. It is to these last, some of whom may be among your readers, that I write. Of all the degrees given at Oglethorpe University, or by any other high-class college or university, the ones which require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1935 | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

Easy Washing Machine Yellow Stain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advt. Ailments | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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