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Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, a high-strung Mohammedan with a natural flair for obstetrics, won his brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...excitable Mohammedan had come to believe that Mrs. Ruxton, of whose morals as a waitress he was particularly well aware, was now carrying on with a young lawyer in the Town Clerk's office. Therefore Dr. Ruxton encircled his wife's neck with strong, jealous fingers and, as her screams became faint gurgles and she died of strangulation, the Mohammedan looked up to find staring at him in petrified horror the pretty nurse of his three small children, Mary Jane Rogerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...week covered a distance equivalent to a journey from San Diego to Chicago. As they set off around the Coliseum for New York, favorites to win were Cousin "Libby" Hoover, an Italian team of Gene Vizena and John Rosasco, a deaf-mute named Jay Levy who has taught his waitress-partner to talk with her hands, the Bogashes, bearded John Devitt. Exhibiting one minor but inflexible characteristic of certain tree-sitting, dancing, walking and roller-skating marathoners, Devitt vowed not to shave until he was leading the event. Next spring Promoter Seltzer plans a Roller Derby in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roller Derby | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Just the same, they could not stay away from the big city. O Haru's sister had gone there and was so lost to shame that she got a job as waitress at a café. O Haru's father went there, and returned with an alarm clock, a fountain pen, and a traveling bag for his wife. Noboru went there, to try to reclaim O Haru's sister, but she had got out of the way of saying "Ma-a!" and "O-i!" so they did not have much to talk about. Noboru went home, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Rollo, Sliced | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...Angeles, Golda Draper, unpublished novelist who had taken a job as a waitress to get material, gave Donald Rothrock such bad service that he shot her in the stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Different | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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