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Said George Bernard Shaw: "Now that we're thoroughly frightened, we'll be all right. Until the British are frightened, they never do anything but play cricket, football, hopscotch and tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Invasion: Preview and Prevention | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Yale's strong tennis squad took a surprising liking to the indoor playing surfaces of the Longwood Cricket Club and the Country Club and administered an 8 to 1 defeat to the Crimson netmen Saturday afternoon in a match forced indoors because of rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Trip Netmen 8-1 on Indoor Courts | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

With Pinocchio comes a host of new sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Montro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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