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...homo Americanibus and there ain't anything he's afraid to tackle. Snap and speed are his middle name! He'll put her across if he has to ride from hell to breakfast, and believe me I'm mighty good and sorry for the boob that's so unlucky as to get in his way, because that poor slob is going to wonder where he was at when old Red Lewis hit town! Do you suppose we could get old Red into Rotary some day?" "Wouldn't be surprised, it's a changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate of the Boobolsie | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Sinclair Lewis gave the world its classic picture of the American conformist. Whether he was known as Babbitt, Doc Kennicott, Joe Doakes or the great American boob, this monster was terrible, and to escape him (or his wife) the intellectuals of the 1920s fled from Main Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Main Street Revisited | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Seven months before World War II, the President was reported to have made the major (not minor) prophecy that the U.S. frontier was on the Rhine. He denounced the report as "a deliberate lie" and "100% bunk," said its originator was a "boob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...since the Easter Sunday (1937) murder of Model Veronica Gedeon had Manhattan newsmen had a really good chance to indulge in boob-catching antics like diagrams with X's marking spots. This one looked as if it would back the Gedeon killing on to the trash pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Murder at Retail | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...morning. Irish-born (County Tyrone) son of a bricklayer, he was clerking in a Philadelphia grocery store and his name was then George Black. Then he noticed that actors seemed to sleep late mornings. He began copying every gesture of a Keith headline act about a political boob, got a chance to give his imitation at Minersville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Medicine Man | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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