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...Postal cards addressed to Herman Strutter from clipping bureaus, stating that for 10 or 25? they will send him an item of interest have been received. Wise Perry post-office employes place Strutter's mail in the Herald box. Climax was the receipt of advertising from artificial limb companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1935 | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...Hello," she called. "I didn't know you were back. The last I heard you had fallen out of a tree in Uvalde." The little man's blue eyes twinkled. "Mrs. Roosevelt," said Vice President Garner, "I didn't hurt myself. I jumped from a limb and misjudged the distance to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Quarters | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...manager of the wholesale division of Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; in Augusta, Me. Said Canadian-born Mrs. Lewis, who owns 20 beauty parlors throughout the land, races a string of horses: "My pride in the business, my idealism, caused the trouble between us. ... I found I was out on a limb, so I had to cut the limb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 15, 1934 | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Roanoke, Va., Jesse T. Meadows scrambled up a small tree to shoot a squirrel. On a smooth limb he slipped, fell out of the tree, flung his wrist against the blade of an ax, which sliced off his hand, discharged his gun, which blew off his foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds together to produce a powerful program of persuasion. The halls of Harvard will soon echo the salubrious arguments of Olympian debaters, who plan to challenge the more retiring amongst us who prefer to have the human limb enshrouded in Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and mystery. In this way, they hope "to stimulate the interests of students in nudism and in the work of the league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/20/1934 | See Source »

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