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Instead of smartly biting off the tip, or cutting it off with a knife and conveying it to his lips with a fork, Vegetarian Hitler picks up a stalk of asparagus with his fingers, inserts the tip between his lips, sucks vigorously, frequently consuming the entire stalk. Since most thrifty, common Germans, when they get a chance at asparagus, eat it in exactly this fashion, Realmleader Hitler again stood vindicated last week as "The Apotheosis of The Common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Asparagus Sucker | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...Vegetarian," voiced Peter Rabbit. "Do you think they would have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1935 | See Source »

...accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion of the drawing, scaled to one-fifth life size. The creature was 30 ft. long, stood 17 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder, had a tough loose-folded hide, long legs, thick neck, small, blunt head, enormous incisor teeth. A vegetarian, Baluchitherium ("Beast of Baluchistan") probably weighed 20.000 lb., ate 500 lb. of herbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Museums | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

This sort of thing went on for eight hours, two being luncheon, with Vegetarian Hitler giving the interpreters no chance to eat as he shook before the John Bulls what one diplomat called afterward "the expanse of Europe embroidered like a German tapestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Berlin Mission | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

California. Fossils of two extinct species were found for the first time on the Pacific slope. One, announced by Dr. Chester Stock of Caltech, was a titanothere -a vegetarian mammal of 30,000,000 years ago, larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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