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The Wet Parade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an honest and clever adaptation of Upton Sinclair's sloppy tract on Prohibition (TIME, Sept. 28). Without the radicalism of its original, it delineates the evils of drink and shows, without partiality Wet or Dry, that guzzling to excess brings misery. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Lambert was obliged, and cheerfully so, to admit that he had erred two years ago. As head of the checking-up committee he had discerned that sly drug fiends had pretended cure to escape detention and get their dope in full freedom. But by prying, during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Narcosan Rejected | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Enraged at their ignominious defeat, the besotted horde of dirt hounds sought revenge by storming the Crimson Building with their natural weapon, mud. A near riot ensued in which the three CRIMSON news editors who happened to be in the building put 43 lampoon amateurs to shame. Peace was not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: lampoon Mudslingers Seek Futile Revenge on Crimson for Proxy Victory--Score as Usual Proves to Be 23 to 2 | 5/16/1925 | See Source »

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