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Thence to the office where I met--and we together by underground to Boston and to the State House to hear attacks on the Oath Law. This be the best show I have seen in a long time. Lord, what speeches! The Student Council presents a worthy resolution but its speaker, upon questioning, says he knows nothing about the business! A pretty blot for the record! One law school professor thrills the audience by his wit and arrogance, but it seems to me, any sober judge would say he made a monkey of himself; and did no more good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...aard-wolf is a repulsive, hyena-like little animal which lives in colonies underground and is becoming extinct because, like the others above, it is not very good at avoiding collectors who want it for its rarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...trouble began when it became necessary to investigate the source of six inches of water in the forced-draft ventilating chamber of the underground passageways around the House. Two days ago the discovery was made by an unidentified here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Sinking, Is Belief of Investigators Pumping Foundation and Mending Broken Pipes | 12/5/1935 | See Source »

...first being called "Twenty Pounds Too Much." This shows an enormously fat, repulsive woman in a luxurious boudoir being massaged by a main. The second, "Twenty Pounds Too Little," pictures a woman, who, from lack of food, has become almost a skeleton, lying on a bare mattress in an underground squalid room, while sitting about her are her husband and little son. On a table by the bed are two empty food bowls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

Just on the stroke of midnight in an underground barbershop in Times Square, Martin Krompier, Flegenheimer's right-hand man, found himself staring at a figure with a drawn gun. The gunman blew a hole in the ceiling to warn other occupants of the shop to scatter. Then he plugged Krompier four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triple Zero | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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