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While neighbors in Richmond, England, shook their heads, lonely little old Ada Littlejohn packed her small trunk last August and sailed for Manhattan. Her husband had died. So had her terrier Jumbo and her canary Nanki-Poo. For Mrs. Ada Littlejohn it seemed at first like just one more tragedy in her life when the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company announced it would give Gilbert & Sullivan in the U.S. this season (TIME, Sept. 17). But then she reckoned her slender income and decided to go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: ADDICT | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Newshawks refrained from further questions to concentrate on the etchings. One showed a chair in the middle of a forest. From a spigot in the side of the chair water poured. A hand grew out of a tree trunk. It was tossing in the air omelets that slid down a nearby board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Frozen Nightmares | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...bottles of porter, which is a dark, heavy liquor made with browned malt, he uncorked with his trunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: America's First Elephant at Harvard Graduation Exercises in 18th Century Tour of the Continent | 10/6/1934 | See Source »

...month to collect her mother's $40 Civil War pension. When Myrtle arrived for the 30th time for the pension, the postmaster decided to walk back to Mother Bishop's with her. He found part of Mother Bishop cremated in a fruit jar, part of her stuck in a trunk, all of Mother Bishop dead two and a half years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1934 | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...this most respectable resort on the whole so-called "British Riviera" was almost frantic when embarrassed policemen broke the news to her. In the parcel room of balmy, blissful Brighton's sprawling railway station the headless, armless, legless torso of a woman had been found in a small trunk. Shrilled Mayor Margaret Hardy: "This case belongs to London! Nothing like this has ever happened before in Brighton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sherlock Spilsbury | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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