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...Swedish damsel, Flanders jade, A dark Eiran colleen, A Chink, a Jap, a Negro maid, A primitive Slovene, Let chance but send a wench of these To mop our dusty floor, To wash our dinner dishes, please-We do not ask for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Central Park (Universal-International) is the story of Boss Tweed in a Currier & Ives setting. A colleen (Deanna Durbin), just off the boat from Ireland, flirts with a whiz-bang muckraker (Dick Haymes) from the New York Times. Her illiterate father, in all innocence, fattens zoo pheasants for the table of sybaritic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...that he was in the third week of a four-week fast. He hoped to attract attention to his campaign for $9,000 to finish making the down payment on a $66,000 mansion to be used as an orphanage. The mansion was once owned by former movie star Colleen Moore. Said Mr. Gaines: "I have fasted many times before. I have never fasted for anything that God has not given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Should Harvard lose on the Hanover green sward, perish the thought, let no Radcliffe colleen essay the role of Lady Macbeth. T'would be needless to say "Out, dammed spot, out, I say.' One, two; why, then 'tis time to rue 't.--Defeat is dark...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: Whirling Bill Shakespeare Chants Spectral High Praise Of Conant's Clan With Tourney at Hanover in Mind | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

...Chief Tristan's praises so plausibly that his legend was adopted by the Welsh, who spiced it up with some fey lore and turned it over to the Irish. Irish harpists remodeled Tristan along the general lines of a fighting Irishman and changed his princess into a pretty colleen. The Vikings got wind of the story and decided that so beautiful a woman must, of course, have had golden hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Old Sad Song | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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