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CHAMPAIGN, III.--"Aw rats!" cried John Poppelreiter, University of Illinois Freshman, today as he read about all this goldfish gulping...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Something Else to Swallow | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

...true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Winchell Claims Deficiency In Education Explains Ability as Stylist | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...last fortnight that "duty" might compel Franklin Roosevelt to run again (TIME, Aug. 15). While the President in uniform stands contentedly on the second (term) sack and a harassed elephant pitcher stands afraid to pitch lest the runner steal third, Mr. Manager Michelson runs out on the diamond shouting: "Aw quit worryin' about him! He ain't gonna run-that is he ain't unless he's forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Head Examined | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful ministers, one is a Holy Roller and the other is a dead beat. I'm going to start a recall against Purves. Why, these charges are practically nothing at all. I can't get the drift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Fighting Tailor | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...puckered but whole. John too will be permanently scarred but this thought did not deter him from volunteering. His mother, who takes roomers, promised to reward him with $20 and a new coat. But last week she took sick and the $20 went for doctor's bills. "Aw, that's all right, mom," said John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Artificial Siamese | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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