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...long,.her mouth a bit too wide, her ankles a bit less than trim, and she is not outstanding at clotheshorseman-ship. She has a voice something like a brassy low note on a trumpet, and she speaks in a twanging drawl; friends comes out "frayans," affairs are "affa-yahs," hogs "hoags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: The First Lady Bird | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...said his sidekick, "I've been Hering such Gorrin storries about them that my blood Kardles and my heart Thropps, and that's no Lyman. But there's no Harman saying that Rayner shine we'll Kopp this one, and that's the real McCoy. I'd sign my affa-Davis to that...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Aces Take Queens | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

...Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive for long. Last week the Moscow radio significantly broke a story that began the middle of last month when Edouard Daladier, then French Premier, sent his Moscow Chargé d'Affaíres around to ask Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov about a not only objectionable but very queer telegram handed in at Paris for transmission to Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Allies v. Soviets | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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