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...named Sparrow, attired in a linoleum dress suit, submitted himself to a barrage of swill including rotten melons, goldfish, eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gilbert on Vaudeville | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Coach Dorson's Crimson yearling swill journey to New Haven tomorrow to meet the Yale Freshman netmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burt and Gilkey Lead Tennis Team to Triumph Over Brown | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

...swill-grubbing beast has a dirtier mouth than man. Such is the humiliating opinion offered in last week's Journal of the American Dental Association by the University of Pennsylvania's Dentist Leonard Rosenthal and colleagues. They based their opinion on extensive researches, mostly at Philadelphia's zoo. They examined the saliva of one hippopotamus, two lions, one baboon, two elephants, one rhinoceros, 28 pigs, two horses, two chimpanzees, 50 dogs, eight cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dirtymouth | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bill to Roost | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Dorothy Thompson, Eddie Cantor, and Governor-elect Leverett Saltonstall '14 swill speak in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night a 8 o'clock at a mass meeting of college students in the Boston area who are interested in the German refuges problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASS MEETING ON REFUGEES SLATED | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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