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...rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else I kin do t'kill that bastid, sep grab him by his lectrick line and pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trial by Doxy | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...with him this week to Geneva. Portly, pipe-sucking Edouard Herriot and fluffy-maned, impassioned Joseph Paul-Boncour, both onetime Premiers, are the two big League guns, but they are flanked by pontifical old Henry Berenger, Chairman of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and kinetic Deputy Paul Bastid, the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Chairman. Though French public opinion remained friendly to Italy last week it also remained pacifist and continued to regard the League as a vital strut in the structure of Security-in France a word more magic than Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Odor of Oil | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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