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Negro Armwood was bleeding from head and chest when he was dragged out of the jail. He was stunned from the fight he had put up in his cell. He made no outcry, even when a young boy leaped on his back and cut off one of his ears. He fell often under foot as the mob dragged him along. He was dead before they strung him up to an oak tree in sight of Judge Duer's house. Some mobsters tried to set fire to what few rags remained on the corpse. There was not enough to burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: At Princess Anne | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...There's a Lucky Guy." The camera approaches a street singer in an alley in Paris, then several other malcontents who eye their compatriots enviously, and finally Francois who carries a sign on his chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

With due respect to "Golden Harvest," a sailor comedy with Eugene Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...tell if he has an anchor tatooed on his chest?" the blonde asks. "Why just use your ... ah ... ingenuity," the master mind replies. To the imaginations of thousands of CRIMSON readers we leave the task of reconstructing the horse-play that ensues. In the lingo of the theatre it "panicked" the Metropolitan audience Friday night...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...Rienhoff took his chance and last week when the child left the hospital her right, uncontaminated lung had already grown bigger than normal. Soon the sole lung will fill her chest, supply all the air she needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: One Lung | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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