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...Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable Hitler and the porcine Laval were not enough, the buffoon Mussolini joined the chorus, asking, as Italy had asked in the past, for Nice and Corsica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Zones of Disquiet | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...week a Japanese business expert on the U.S. gave the islanders eight U.S. "weaknesses" showing that it is no match for Japan: 1) the national debt; 2) a "spoiled child mentality"; 3) low national morale (at the first defeat Taft, Nye & Lindbergh will lead a revolt); 4) Roosevelt, "a buffoon"; 5) hesitancy; 6) "Americans excite easily and cool easily"; 7) disunity-with 20,000,000 Negroes, 10,000,000 unemployed, 5,000,000 trade unionists; 8) inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advice to Japan | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...patriot. Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon!," "Coward!," "Show-off!" filled the Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Juan Pueblo Smells Trouble | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Though they never get to Singapore in this picture, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope buffoon their way through the high societies of San Francisco and the Hebrides. Their vaudeville antics and their casual repartee save the movie from the hopeless boredom of the others in the current Dorothy Lamour sarong series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Pravda's masters of invective foamed at the mouth. In an editorial labeled "Buffoon in the Post of Premier," Premier Cajander, head of the Government of a "friendly" State, became a "clown, crowing rooster, squirming grass-snake, marionette; small beast of prey without sharp teeth and strength but having a cunning lust." The 60-year-old Premier, a schoolteacher's son, a forestry expert and middle-of-the-road Progressive in politics, was accused of "standing on his head, talking upside down, smearing crocodile tears over his dirty face." If Premier Cajander did not watch out, Pravda hinted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Brazen Provocation | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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