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* Until 2:00 and 3:00 o'clock each morning, taxicabs with their doors held open like traps, line lower Broadway's sidewalk, to carry night workers away. Hornblower & Weeks, stock market brokers, at Easter gave their heavily worked clerks two weeks extra pay. A fortnight ago the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stock Market Jamboree | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

"My desire is not to oppose trapping or killing of animals, but I endeavor to prevent throughout the country the torturing of animals in steel traps."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Steel-Trap Champion Styles Self No Sob-Sister but Sportsman--Commander Breck Shows Cruelty of Device | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

The bill to penalize the use of certain traps and other devices for the capture of fur-bearing animals, camp up for a hearing at the State House yesterday, and Commander Breck was the chief speaker in a heated argument. Backing up his statement more definitely, he told the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Steel-Trap Champion Styles Self No Sob-Sister but Sportsman--Commander Breck Shows Cruelty of Device | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

Commander Breck again emphasized that he was not a sentimentalist, and that he had shot more moose than any other man. "When I was not at sea, I lived in the woods. I used to use traps myself, and only slowly did I realize what a cruel thing I was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Steel-Trap Champion Styles Self No Sob-Sister but Sportsman--Commander Breck Shows Cruelty of Device | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

Wild Geese, brushing across a cobwebbed sky, become for Judith Gare the symbol of a freedom she achieves when her father's avarice finally traps him into death. Spots of melodrama, blotches of theatrical emotion do less, to mar the story than to prove that sincere acting can make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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