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Senator Kenneth McKellar, 77, happily availed himself of one of the cozier privileges of his pro-tern presidency of the Senate. The sulphurous, cob-nosed bachelor from Tennessee greeted visiting Gwin Barnwell, the South's "Cotton Maid," with a painstaking buss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

From out these amber-colored doings we do find much unneeded sympathy for our newly-weds, "Shakey" and Mrs. Michels, H. "Bruin" Sheller and frau, and "Elongated Abe" and his wife Zaleznick. "The cob" (quotation borrowed) is the fact that our company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company was bested in the race for 60 dollar per month rental allowance by such fifth company stalwarts as "Buck" Ayers, B.A. (?) Johnson, "Rolie Polie" Foley, Regt, Comdr, Grenaker, and numerous other eupidites...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

Like every college organization today, the SERVICE NEWS needs new recruits to maintain its continuity the SERVICE NEWS needs men to continue its policy of presenting to the University all the news that fits. Especially needed are photo-men to keep the cob-webs out of the darkroom and to take the picture that are worth a thousand words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Position With Big Opportunity for Advancement Offered Young Men | 7/6/1945 | See Source »

Avenida Corrientes, the local Broadway, was dimmed to save electricity; locomotives eked out their coal with wood and corn-on-the-cob. Excepting such details, the war had brought nothing but boom to Buenos Aires. Legitimate businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Bright Surface | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...cob: Corny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jabberwocky | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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