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...firefly and the glowworm blink their lights? How does the jellyfish called ctenophore and the tiny, multitudinous noctiluca flash in the sea? And two score other fish, insects, plants, and bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Popularization | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...never flinched. . . ." We are wondering if James Cannon Jr. of the M. E. Church south shall blink when he sees the Holy Places in Palestine-all of them, if we remember rightly, in charge of Roman Catholic Franciscan monks. (And you know that rascal Al Smith believes the same as they do.) If Cannon Jr. would have a competent guide then must he seek a son of Francesco Bernardone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone. Bewildered tourists from a saner world blink and are startled as they step into the white lobby light where the inevitable cameras click...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Openings | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Philadelphia. The effect of Philadelphia's bootleg investigation had to be considered (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). In that citadel of Vare Republicanism the Volstead act carried all its ghostly, malevolent outriders. Flagrant police corruption had been exposed. Suspects in higher positions has ceased to wink, begun to blink. The Vare regime was receiving unwelcome, unpleasant publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blinks of Philadelphia | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...lighthouse wherein people were frequently murdered. On discovering a painter in the lighthouse, Mr. Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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