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...Manhattan, one Frederick Weybrach, 14, told his playmates he was going to drink poison, darted into a hallway, downed a dose of iodine and rat poison. A policeman and emetics saved his life. "I don't want to be a mollycoddle," explained Frederick to his father, whose second wife had been making Frederick do her housework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...with young- twelve diminutive sharks, 18 inches long. Shortly afterward the schooner touched at a tiny island south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skipper's Daughter | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Redeeming Sin (Warner) is good comedy. That it was intended as a serious picture did not keep tolerant first-night audiences from chuckling happily at a cast of Parisian underworldlings who talk in the manner of the English nobility-rat Dolores Costello demanding "the jewels"; at Conrad Nagel who, told that his sweetheart has married in his absence, exclaims: "Then I'm too late!"; at a sister shaking a dying boy to bring him back to life; at the Hollywood conception of a Paris sewer; at a supposedly French priest reciting the Lord's Prayer with an Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...rat which the Senate thought, on the eve of the Chapman deal's consummation, that" it smelled, was not only a matter of money. Rubicund Senator McKellar of Tennessee complained loudly that a onetime Shipping Board official, Joseph Edward Sheedy, was in shameful cahoots with Mr. Chapman. Cried Senator Mc-Kellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Ship Board Bogged | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Anon a cobra, no pretty worm of Nilus,* creeps out of nowhere at the feet of that most famed snake charmer of Egypt. It raises its head and a length of body clear of the ground, quite resembling a rat terrier expectantly sitting up for a titbit. As the fakir puffs his cheeks in hissing whistle, the cobra puffs its hood and lazily sways to the sibilancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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