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Outside, my bodiless sisters frisk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old College Try | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...ideal of the Fabbulous Monster was attained early. Large, floppy, green hats became Woollcott's favorite headgear. On Fifth Avenue he wore a red waistcoat embroidered with headless bodies and bodiless heads. He built himself a magnificent bathroom, decorated it with a tile which showed Woollcott on the toilet seat. His language matched his man ners. He would say to a guest: "You faun's rear end, I hoped we'd seen the last of you," or "Here's our withered harpy back again." "Thank you, you mildewed sheeny," was his way of acknowledging help from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fabbulous Monster | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Doing away with much of this clutter of ribs and spars is a major step in development of the flying wing, for this bodiless plane must have clear wing interiors to make room for passengers, cargo, bombs, Northrop Aircraft built a two-engined flying wing with a 38-ft. span, flew it so successfully last fall that the U.S. Army popped the queer plane out of sight for further development. Reason: some engineers estimate that the plane, lacking a tail, has 40% less head resistance than a conventional plane, and every square inch of its body contributes to lift. Hence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Boost for the Flying Wing | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Silk was about to publish Ivory Tower, a magazine arrogantly devoted to the arts alone and written by him alone, featuring a manifesto in the old avant-garde style of the '20s which insulted everybody and thing in sight. Poppet Green was "painting away like a mowing machine . . . bodiless heads, green horses and violet grass, seaweed, shells and funguses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Bore War | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite's head projects face up, like a mystic's dream of bodiless intelligence. Within, on a sheeted mattress, lies his flaccid, wasted body covered with a night dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life in a Respirator | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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