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...call an octopus in trout's clothes). . . . Seems to us Ann Marster's experiment in playing the horses hasn't been too great a success. We've been noticing quite a few reports lately starting, 'Only picked one winner yesterday' Back to getting the dirt on Harvard's wild cock-tail parties, Ann!. . . . Incidently the freshmen seem to have found a way of getting the wheels turning at their smoker last night: they merely stood up and threw cheese, crackers and doughnuts at each other until Jimmy Foxx appeared, minus a bat or even a catcher's mask. The great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Kaleidoscope | 5/5/1936 | See Source »

Thence to Cock Horse to cat, and I was stung exceedingly, and thence to town and to Shubert to see Water Hampden as Cyrano de Bergerac. By good fortune I did get a box seat at balcony fee--so great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

...spite of all temptations to take his tongue out of his cheek and go up higher, Author Stong remains at the top of his heap, lustily cock-a-doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eyes on Hollywood | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

Various methods which have been tried were not successful. Tipsy driver, "cock-eyed" co-eds and "dead soldiers" outside dorm windows grow more frequent every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/10/1935 | See Source »

...Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Gugsa Makes Good | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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