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...smartest poke-checker in the game, because their two bald defense men, Ivan ("Ching") Johnson and Clarence ("Taffy") Abel, are heavy and efficient, because Bill Cook, who skates with the rhythm of a moose running, is the highest-paid team captain in the National Hockey League, because Bun Cook, his brother who looks like Lindbergh and is engaged to be married, is surpassed as a skater only by the famed Howie Morenz of the Montreal Canadiens. All season big crowds (from six to fifteen thousand) have cheered the Rangers in their home games but until two weeks ago the Rangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...halfpenny bun on a Waterloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...whole brain looks like a dirty, wetted newspaper crumpled up and patted into somewhat the shape of a rounded bun. Another comparison might be to a lobsided mushroom, for the bottom of the brain runs into a sort of stalk, which is the spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...audience four columns of sectarian slush (pp. 20-21, Nov. 16) ? If sect barons fight among themselves about matters connected with politics or ethics or immaculate conceptions, such rot may perhaps be called legitimate news when stated in your own finely compressed style. But descriptive matter about "elevating the bun," bell ringing, genuflections, etc., in a journal like yours is STEALING THE SPACE YOUR SUBSCRIBERS ARE ENTITLED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: No Sportsman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...story of a Manhattan cocktail, mixed of ingredients ranging from maraschino to sheep-dip, that stretched a U. S. Colonel on the barroom floor with blue flames and smoke issuing from between his toes. The Colonel took the recipe to Washington, D. C., named it "the hot buttered bun" in deference to the late Mr. Bryan and made his fortune selling it to Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Days | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

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