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...merits of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (verdict: an exciting novel with a weak last half). A verse group was entertained by Dorothy Parker with a speech called Sophisticated Verse, and the hell with it. A fiction group heard a dozen speeches, ranging from talks on how to worm social-conscious fiction into pulp magazines to Dashiell Hammett's warning that Hollywood techniques are poison to novelists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writers' Congress | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Well, you're welcome to the meat, but what worries me is the half-bottle of worm medicine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...most treacherous of major diseases, trichinosis, is caused by eating underdone pork in which larvae of the hairlike worm Trichinella spiralis dwell. Trichinosis, with its severe intestinal pains and high temperature is rarely diagnosed, more often confused with typhoid or rheumatic fever. Although public health officials have long known that the U. S. has a higher incidence of trichinosis than any other country in the world,* even the efficient Public Health Service did not publish until last year the astounding fact that an estimated 16,000.000 persons in the U. S. are infected with trichinae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Trichinosis | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...organizes Vigilance Committees to spy in pubs. He threatens to fire the schoolmaster unless he gives up his Protestant sweetheart. He badgers a spirited girl (Jessica Tandy) who will not knuckle under. Finally, he attempts to override the law. But he goes too far-the worm of a schoolmaster turns, the police inspector gives as good as he gets. the defiant girl stands her ground. Shaughnessy foments an uproar which it takes all the bluff diplomacy of the old Canon to quell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...chain has been in operation for several years, but until this year residents were able to worm out along the squash court sidewalk. This year another post has rendered this impractical for anything except Austins, bicycles, and scooters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150 Sign Petition To Postpone Hour Of Chain Locking | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

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