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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Douglas, Isle of Man, Isaac Hyman, 34, tailor, sleepwalked into his dining room, cut his throat with a saw-edged bread knife, died before waking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Groucho Marx, the most brittle of the four "Animal Crackers" now playing at the Shubert Theatre, hissed invectives against New England in general and Massachusetts in particular. It was all on account of the recent "Strange Interlude" controversy, a propose of which Groucho said: "Yeah, Quincy's a sore throat: and Boston's a pain in the neck." He pointed out that behind all this "preposterous censorship" were not the Lowells and the Cabots and God, but the Caseys and the Kellys; however, he added, "the Cabots and that crowd are so scared of a left wing that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy and Boston are Troubles in Groucho's Pharynx Which Harvard Might Alleviate--But Football Comes First | 10/3/1929 | See Source »

...occurred 16 years ago. At that time Minister of Executions Francisco de Pineda, then just an ordinary thief, with two friends, entered the farmhouse of Emilia Muniz Garcia, 63. Together they trussed her up, gagged and robbed her. The gag shoved Signora Garcia's false teeth down her throat. She choked, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Minister of Executions | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...could. Secretary of War James William Good last week might have charged out into a grassy field just below New Orleans, waved his Arms wildly, uttered loud noises from his throat. This he might have done to rout a herd of cows complacently grazing over the site of one of the few U.S. victories in the War of 1812. But as decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Out of Bounds | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Charles Williamson Richardson, 68, of Washington, D. C., ear, nose & throat specialist, friend and physician to Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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