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...welcoming floor, a gigantic terror presents itself. The mirror is just over me. Inching towards it--steady as she goes - the possibilities for what I could look like flower. It's not just the issue of bruised eyes and a grassy verge of a mouth. A black, suppurating tumour may cascade from my forehead; my eyes could have multiplied; little horns might peep up through my rug; my nose could be replaced by a bluebery muffin. The final encounter with the mirror have never proved as bad. But the fear lives on--especially on Sunday mornings...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: Being Afraid | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...many Fascists he in his time had or Sir Oswald Mosley at present has is impossible to say. Only accurate gauge is that both succeeded in filling Albert Hall, which seats some 10,000 people, at party mass meetings. Cooler than Commander Locker-Lampson last week. Edward Tumour, Earl of Winterton, hoisted himself to his feet to oppose the motion. First he explained that, as foreign governments have discovered to their dismay, it is practically impossible to define a political uniform. Continued the worthy Earl of Winterton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shirt Advertising | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

Died. Jules Tumour, 80, oldtime Spanish-born circus clown (Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey); in Valley Stream, L. I. His favorite story: while trouping in Iowa he learned that the son of the man who rented the circus its lot was ill; he went to the house, clowned before the window of young Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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