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...that of a farmer suffering from an incurable and agonizing disease. He died clasping my hand, and murmuring, 'God bless you, doctor.' "The fourth case was a man suffering from the same disease and unable to eat, drink or sleep. He was in agony beyond the torment of the damned. He also died with a smile on his face and with his hand in mine. "The fifth case [had] the same disease.* I had no hesitation in ending his life." The author of this confession, printed last week in the London Daily Mail, added that his conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Right to Kill | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Diamond Jim" Brady twice - once when introduced to him by Ethel Barrymore, again when he was playing with Maxine Elliott. Said Brady: "Well, young man, I hope that some day you'll have a big part." Dante's Inferno (Fox). See ten million sinners writhing in eternal torment . . . cringing under the Rain of Fire . . . consumed in the Lake of Flames . . . struggling in the Sea of Boiling Pitch . . . toppling into the Crater of Doom . . . wracked by agony in the Torture Chambers . . . PLUS THE MOST SPECTACULAR CLIMAX EVER CONCEIVED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 12, 1935 | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...seems to me sometimes that I am staking myself, all that I am, on a single moment -my last." As Claude watches his dying friend he thinks: "Ah, if only they existed, those gods of theirs, and he might, even at the cost of never-ending torment, howl in their faces, like the baying dogs, the bitter truth-that no hope of heaven, no promise of reward, nothing can justify the end of any human life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Death | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...desire that the priceless boon of sleep and rest be conferred as quickly as possible on as many as possible, and that the sick in particular shall be freed from the torment of the motor horn at night. . . . The caution which a motorist instinctively displays when he no longer has recourse to his hooter is a contribution to the measure we are taking to increase public safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Night Without Hoots | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...only one course left to take. The presence of a science requirement must at last be recognized as a fixture and remedies found to alleviate the existing pestilence. And to those who have been allowed or forced to drift along through three years of college with the torment of the science requirement hanging over their procrastinating heads the solution is clear. It is briefly that the same rule that applies to languages, however objectionable lit may sound at first, be installed in regard to science. Students should required, if there must be a science requirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHILE WE'RE YET YOUNG | 5/23/1934 | See Source »

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