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...stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting, groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole in the bloody drip that fills her eyes and runs off her chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blood & Agony | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...careening and rolling down a bank, battering and smashing its occupants every inch of the way. can wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. ... A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blood & Agony | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...days later, in his brother's Saranac Lake camp, Governor Earle stepped on a punky floor board, crashed through, painfully wrenched his right leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Athletic Christian | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...Monte Carlo. Mrs. A. M. Sherwood, 65, of Los Angeles, Calif., had a hunch when she saw that her waiter's number was 13, scuttled for the Casino to play No. 13, slipped on a banana peel, broke her leg in two places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Husband | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...Romola Nijinsky says her husband did ten such leg flicks in air, more than any other dancer on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Nights (Cont'd) | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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