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...Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest winner. Interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sergeant Duvall, the Negro took a butcher knife, cut the Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that its eyeballs popped out. Finally he left, taking Ruth Duvall with him. Some 30 hours later the girl was found, naked, outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: People v. Shepherd | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Untalkative, small, muscular, shrewd, Zukor got along in the fur business. He and his partner, Morris Kohn, understood fur tradition?when a dealer tried to cheat them, one held him by the throat while the other ran to the bank to cash his check before he could stop payment. In 1897, surrounded by a tribal

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount's Papa | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth for anything I know. Balance in my favour $39.94. ... I never will abandon the cause of truth, morals and virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...entirely dependent on the care exercised by those who are taken ill with Influenza. Trued Influenza is characterized by a sudden onset of illness with fever and general body aches and pains, particularly backache and aching behind the eyes. This may be associated with nose and throat symptoms...

Author: By Paul H. Means, | Title: NOTICE | 12/21/1928 | See Source »

...wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp razor over the sallow, imperial throat. The plot is not developed as it would be in an old-fashioned picture but as in Mr. Caesar's play, by succinct and fairly inoffensive dialog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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