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...image of a Victorian guardsman. Eyeing his new photographs, it was almost impossible not to visualize him in an old-fashioned cop's helmet, or to picture him as an honest bartender, white apron, gold watch chain and all, stepping out of the gaslit past, with a bung starter in one meaty hand', to scatter the rascals for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: To Be Continued | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Bung-nosed A. P. ("Peck") Herbert, 60, novelist, wit, and Independent M.P. for Oxford, took to the pages of London's Sunday Graphic to give a vigorous pat on the back to Britain's Chief Representative to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, with a sideswipe at one of Sir Gladwyn's chief adversaries, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob Malik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Speaking Up | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Most vociferous anti-Dutch leader was Major General Sutomo, known as Bung (Comrade) Tomo to Indonesian radio listeners. A limpid-eyed, long-haired journalist, Bung Tomo turned guerrilla leader in 1945. He then vowed not to shave until the Dutch left Indonesia, but a year ago his beard got too much for him and he shaved. Sample of his radioratory: "Kill the Dutch, kill the British, cut throats, tear limb from limb, boil them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Merdeka! | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse: "You can't feed at the trough and pull the bung out at the same time . . ." In his convocation address, Ashby promised to use DDT on erring faculty and students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bung & the Trough | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...fell, the cast bowed & bowed. It was a triply ripping occasion: 1) the opening of Britain's first big postwar musical, Big Ben; 2) the 125th production by Britain's Flo Ziegfeld, aging (73), arthritic Charles Blake Cochran; 3) a show written by a Member of Parliament-bung-nosed Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, famed as a humorous writer ("A.P.H.") and as a pillar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Ben Strikes | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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