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...witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there, lost her voice from fright, scared by a huge police dog being sicked onto her, kept from a toilet all the 28 hours, flung into a filthy bath tub where the outlet was plugged up from vomit broken teeth and the hair of other victims, and on top of it all, caught pleurisy, from which she nearly died in Brussels, and was fiat on her back for two months, and is still badly injured from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Frank Pease, a Violent Railer Against Hanfstaengl Can't Be Located | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

...great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened, they vomit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dragons | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Down on St. Louis last month swept the fingers of a dreaded plague. At widely-separated spots in & around the city people began to grow drowsy, vomit, feel their heads ache. After 24 hr. their necks crooked stiffly back, their reflexes weakened. Most lapsed into partial, some into complete coma. Others drowsed in daytime, fidgeted at night. As the malady spread, early sufferers grew maniacal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleep Scourge | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...softness or cares about charm. Good if somewhat angrily honest, her stories are apt to be bitter to palates accustomed to a sugaring of the pill. In No Time Like the Present, half autobiography and half indictment of a civilization that returns to war like a dog to its vomit, there is less sugaring than ever, more anger than usual, and the same hard honesty as always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class of 1914 | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...Avignon in Provence 49 years ago, son of a baker. Though Edouard Daladier was no Separatist, a friend of his boyhood was the late great Poet Frederic Mistral, reviver of the Provencal language. Desiring to be a schoolteacher, Edouard Daladier entered a normal school and studied under a plump vomit: man whose career was to parallel his from then on: Edouard Herriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Study in Bag-holding | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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