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...Gentleman who traditionally digests the London Times ("The Thunderer") with his breakfast kipper had received no forewarning, he probably kicked over his gout stool in amazement when he picked up his paper last Monday morning. In size, shape and general character, it was the same old Times. In the notice columns of the front page "Maisie" was still trying to get "Howard"' to call the Bayswater number; Old Boys were being besought by their headmasters to contribute a little something to St. Swiffen's; land was going begging in South Africa. But see here, what was this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Changed Thunderer | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...flick his face savagely again. fought. The last Schmeling four was rounds fresher in were the last round, the fastest of a sharp but not particularly dramatic match. When the bell ended it. he ran lightly to his corner. Sharkey followed him. When Schmeling sat down on his stool, Sharkey placed one foot on the lowest rung and leaned down to talk. What he talked about was not revealed but his gesture was so nonchalant that it was seized upon afterwards as a significant item for the furious arguments that followed the fight. Four out of the last five heavyweight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cat's Paw | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

There was once a most shy bank clerk whom his associates called "Bunnie." He was a most efficient bank clerk with heavy spectacles, long, grey trousers, large nose, watery eyes, and a limp. All day long he sat at a high stool in Thread needle Street whisking a great quill pen over the interminable pages of a vast ledger. For years he had done this and he had done it well. And then a change came over Bunnie; he became less conscientious, more preoccupied and took to biting off the feathers on his quill. Love has touched him. Now this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/13/1932 | See Source »

...criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals make Mr. Truex test his notion on a stool pigeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...already cost $200,000?$125,000 to Sir John Simon; $25,000 to solicitors who collected evidence and $50,000 for the expenses of the Attorney General's office. In Wormwood Scrubs, Lord Kylsant had a clean cell eight feet by ten, a bed, two sheets, two blankets, a stool, a table, a shelf for Bible & photographs. He could and did have all his meals sent in from a first-class caterer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Kylsant to Wormwood Scrubs | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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