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Will you do me a great favor and feed my cat a raw hamburger on Saturday and Sunday? I have been called away for the weekend, and I will repay you on my return Monday. Keep the bloody little animal in the bathroom, so that there will be no unfortunate debris elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Deficient as she already is in key raw materials, at a disadvantage as she already is in obtaining food for her teeming millions, Italy is going to suffer acutely from a food shortage, from telescopic prices, and probably eventual inflation. Ironical enough, these will all result from the efforts of the League to bring about peace. Can there be peace in an organization when one of its members is simultaneously acting like a two-year old and cutting its throat? As the lines become more clearly drawn, it is obvious that the League can maintain its prestige only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANCTIONS | 11/7/1935 | See Source »

...British Government the present shedding of Italian blood to secure space and raw materials for an overcrowded nation has looked like the Dictator's latest bluff. And a bluff is something that can be called. To Italians, who by this time know II Duce thoroughly, the hypothesis that he might be bluffing about Ethiopia has not to this day occurred. They can go as far back as 1919 and trace through his whole subsequent career as Dictator the same keynote of Empire-building he struck then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dux | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...places just because a few of them have old men who make dough. Do they ever think of the good, honest Americans who slave away so they can live off the fat of the land? They do not! Well, let me tell you, it's a plenty raw deal for the rest of us!" The Vagabond groaned, as the face drew nearer and said. "Listen. Vag! Let Elsie Robinson run your column...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/24/1935 | See Source »

...amount she drank. Despairing, weary, intuitive, this 22-year-old girl went on sprees when she "drank rye and water all day long. When she remembered that she had not eaten for 24 hours she would go to a place where the eggs were to be trusted, order a raw egg, break it in an Old Fashioned cocktail tumbler, shoot Angostura bitters into it, and gulp the result." Because she was lovely, and because she had a tormented understanding of the troubles of others, Gloria could live that life without losing an appealing quality that won people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speakeasy Era | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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