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...offense: bucketing out to Hollywood to make a movie called Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick when he should have been 1) singing Figaro in the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville, and 2) joining the rest of the Met company on its spring tour of 13 cities which starts this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You're Fired | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race won at the canal turn; then he developed a painful crick in his neck, from an old injury, and lost his touch on the reins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: His Lordship Up | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...London, Princess Margaret was confined to the palace with "an attack of acute fibrositis"-a crick in the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned that he had a crick in his neck, cramps in his fingers, aches everywhere; that he wanted a haircut, shave, bath, sleep. As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room. "Ah," said a reporter, "the day shift is coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Night Shift | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...year-old Indian fighter. She was always after him to practice his reading and tirelessly corrected his pronunciation of such rich Oklahoma English as "An' thar was the ol' she-b'ar with two yearlin' cubs acomin' thu the bresh by the crick." Mama cried, too, when Markey got Ad Poak, the hired man, to take the horse clippers to his shoulder-length hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oklahoma Boyhood | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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