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...years before Christ was born, old man Diogenes was sunbathing on a Corinthian hillside. Beside him was the tub in which he lived, and his only real friend, a mangy dog. Suddenly a chariot charged up, out of which stepped an elegant, arrogant young man with ruddy cheeks, melting eyes, hair like a lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beobachter's Parallel | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Well-known devices: a tricky binding in which a victim's knees and hands were so entwined in wire that his struggles strangled him; insertion of matches under a victim's toenails, to be lit from time to time; laying a victim in a tub of cement until it hardened, then tossing him into any nearby body of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time tub-thumper for companionate marriage and a Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, called a halt to a psychopathic hearing in his crowded courtroom, snapped on the radio, announced: "This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world," tuned in on a rebroadcast of Hitler's Reichstag speech for one-half hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PEOPLE IN WAR NEWS | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...none of them is pretentious. His four daughters, beauteous like their mother, were never advertised as Glamor Girls, had no noisy coming-out parties. His only son sails a 15-foot boat on Long Island Sound?and when Father Woodward wants to go yachting he sails the little tub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...policeman burst Ferguson's door. He was in his bathroom. The tub was full, and in it was Lizzie Schneider. Ferguson was holding her under, drowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Handy Man | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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