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...Denver, Gloria Utter, 5, and Rose May Etheridge, 6, argued over the possession of a rag doll. Gloria sulked off to her father's garage, returned with her father's gun, shot and slew Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...other survivor, Katherine Schaub of Newark, reacted to her death sentence as did the men of Jerusalem who, when their city was in danger about 712 B. C., made merry, slew oxen, killed sheep, ate flesh, drank wine, shouted: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!" (Isaiah 22: 10-13.) Miss Schaub took her $10,000 cash and bought two motor cars. She amused herself at mountain resorts and hotels. She wrote a book, Gambling With Radium, and when her publishers advised her to improve its literary style, she enrolled as a correspondence pupil at Columbia University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radium Women | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made pot-av-feu of his victims before Jack slew him. The walls are studded with bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gingerbread House | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Zebit was ready for them. Twenty thousand loyal, fuzzy-headed, yelling soldiers under Minister of War Degiac Mulugheta smote the howling rebels hip and thigh, routed them, slew their leader, the Imperial Consort Ras Gugas Wali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Luckless Empress | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Among those at San Quentin who had felt the full impact of the Keyes prosecution were bad-tempered Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), in for the murder of Mrs. Theresa Mors; Leo Pat Kelle, convicted of killing Mrs. Myrtle Mellus; Herbert Wilson, train robber; Clara Phillips, who slew Alberta Meadows viciously with a hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Keyes to San Quentin | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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