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...another shot, the patient started to laugh, pitched forward on his face. When he is only mildly amused, he is perfectly safe. But guffaws and belly" laughs knock him out. His drowsiness never lasts more than a few minutes, but he sleeps ten hours a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Laugh and Lie Down | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...ornate walls are going to be repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few few above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knock-out punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow, It's the blue-lighted anatomical solos which...

Author: By E. G., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

SHANGHAI (Friday)-Fear that the European war might spread to the Orient "at any moment" was voiced in high Occidental diplomatic quarters today and appeared to be based on a belief that Japan will join Germany and Italy in a simultaneous "knock-out" offensive against the British Empire...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/14/1941 | See Source »

...parade." Meanwhile B. M. I. President Neville Miller, hero-mayor of the 1937 Louisville flood, boasted that many a station had been complimented on "the freshness and adequacy of B. M. I. music." Some listeners reacted otherwise. Ten thousand musicians, composers, educators signed petitions asking FCC to knock both B. M. I.'s and ASCAP's heads together so that radio listeners would have something fit to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: ASCAP's First Blow | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...whom obviously did not understand what they saw and would have been depressed if they had. They saw a WPA Army leaning on its weapons-some of which, especially artillery, were not bad-stumbling through the motions of fighting, crawling clumsily around in the woods to try to knock off some determined, able fighters whom the camera never showed. The audiences saw Asiatic soldiers looking more soldierly than their European Russian comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PROPAGANDA: Two War Films | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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