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...Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Not Our Guns! | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...Chinese cricket-lover lives in a bedlam. Several rooms of his house are stacked high with jars of crickets. Exhaustive manuals tell him what to feed each species at each meal (sick crickets get a special diet of red waterbugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Crickets | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...police guarding banks, major business offices, electric power stations and waterworks, tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party. Out of their limousine stepped U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, he a trifle lame and slightly deaf. Just as they reached the Premier's door bedlam broke loose. Japanese police with drawn pistols surrounded the Grews. Others brandished swords and screeched. "These people," someone shouted, "are assassins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Assassins, Crews & Sirens | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

...Widener closes at 6 P.M. those who are athletic or earning their way in the afternoon will be deprived of both a necessary source for reference books and, for some, a welcome retreat from the bedlam of house and home. If the change is based on the supposition that no one studies in Widener either at night or on Sunday, it could be proved that the supposition is false. It is true that at intermittent seasons the libraries are practically abandoned. Well could they be closed in those periods. However, as every one knows, the beginning of the year, reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Hours | 10/1/1932 | See Source »

Into this bedlam now trotted a bunch of steers. The bulls charged, goring the steers at first but gradually making friends with them, quieting down in the company of fellow cattle. Then the steers led the bulls out to pens under the arena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pamplona's Encierros | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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