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...make propositions!" snapped the Marshal, and only after the Germans had been made to eat a great deal more crow did the negotiants finally come to terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Glory to Foch | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Vulture, the Crow, and the Raven, heirs apparent before Mosca has finished his work, are all carefully done, and rather better than either of the two feminine leads, Canina, using Blanca's method in man-hunting, has barren ground for her seed in Mosca and Volpone, but her acting lifts when she finds Carbaccio more amorously accessible. Philip Leigh, the Vulture, managed his voice as well as usual, but had a crutch, a limp, and a hunch to his black and cloaked back, just when it was hoped that the stage, at least, had seen the last of Mr. Chaney...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...useful he is! He digs for the grub of the June bug that eats the roots of the grass. That is why he tears up the lawn. A skunk in the front yard and a crow on the ridgepole is grass insurance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apropos the Skunk | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...nine times. When Briand and the mob were done with Edouard Herriot he had been turned out of the Prime Ministry, after an incumbency of two days, and skinned out of his previous lucrative post as President (Speaker) of the Chamber of Deputies. Since then he has eaten humble crow by accepting the portfolio of Public Instruction and Fine Arts in the present Cabinet of Sacred Union, wherein Raymond Poincaré is Prime Minister and Aristide Briand retains his pet post of Foreign Minister. Thus it came about that Edouard Herriot had to go out to Pons, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Sacred Union Out | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Hooverizer Hughes's remark last week in Chicago, that "the Democrats, to take Smith's tariff plan, will have to eat more crow than the Democratic stomach can stand," the Smith retort was: ''What a delicious pot of crow the Governor [Hughes] is compelled to witness his party eating on the Federal Reserve Bank system.'' Then he announced that all Democratic members of and candidates for Congress had been telegraphed and asked if they would stand by the Smith tariff declaration. Four-fifths of these Democrats had replied in the affirmative, "the other 20% being away on campaign tours." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smith Speeches | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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