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...trouble all started when Grandma died. It hurt me so for Grandpa not to see her. I remember well (though I was only a little tyke at the time) his last words as he left. "I hope you croak," he cooed broken-heartedly, "and I hope it's me as does it." And then for all these years he's never come back. And Grandma lay there on the bed, snarling so patiently, biting me, biting the doctor, even biting the bedposts for practice. I did so want for Grandpa to come home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...tell lies and bow down in the temple of Mammon." Next day the U. S. correspondents facetiously organized the "Most Noble Order of Journalistic Vultures." Members, headed by a First Beak, will salute each other by placing thumbs behind their ears, flapping their fingers, emitting a throaty croak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Million Heils | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...from the revue stage and poetic drama, the play proceeds to a forceful sequence of impressionistic scenes. Johnny is found in a trench with his company and while they writhe their twisted limbs in troubled sleep, three great cannon bathed in green light rise over the parapet, ghoulishly croak a lament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...attempt for point after, from where we were it looked like a good one. It doesn't go up and it doesn't go up on the scoreboard. My last jubilant croak dies in the aesophagus. Sudden and blinding revelation. It was no goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...through the autumn without faltering. The outlook was promising regardless of elections. Businessmen might not like the results but they at least knew now what they were in for. A closer contest, a stronger minority in Congress, might have left room for doubt. While a few soothsayers remained to croak, "Just wait till two years from now," the majority of Wall Street jumped straight aboard the Roosevelt landslide, ready to ride it while the riding was good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Election Elation | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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