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Like the parent of many a kidnapped child, Mr. Rudginsky advised the snatching of the diet needed by the victim of the crime: raw meat, raw eggs, milk once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Pupnapping | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...People (by John Floyd; Galen Bogue, producer) has a queer history. Four years ago, Carroll and Garrett Graham, brothers who had worked on Los Angeles newspapers and in Hollywood studios, wrote the book from which the play was adapted. As a novel, Queer People seemed to Will Hays so raw that he forbade Producer Howard Hughes to turn it into cinema. The publicity which the incident gave the book helped Galen Bogue last week to bill Hal Skelly "in the lovable and immortal role of 'Whitey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

Marks used to cover 60 saloons and beer halls a week. In one he observed a tough customer bothering a raw young waitress who, bursting into tears, exclaimed: "No one would dare insult me if my brother Jack was only here." And she added, "My mother was a lady." Instantly Marks's pencil was out and another song was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songbook | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...fear, a sort of whistling in the dark psychology. If the Soviets were as cocksure as they claim to be, they would not be spending such a considerable portion of their waking hours proclaiming their own invincibility; nor would they allow the Japs to get away with the various raw deals which they have handed Russia in the Far East. Instead they would remain discreetly silent, sure that they could give the little yellow men a resounding kick on their posteriors that would speedily propel them back to their native islands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/21/1934 | See Source »

...this business. It is perfectly evident that the air mail contracts were shot through with graft and their wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months at sea has of keeping himself physically inviolate; and it was only because some of the boys became disgruntled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/13/1934 | See Source »

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