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...around the kennels, he's apt to get temperamental in the show ring. A pug, owned by a little woman from West Roxbury, has been cleaning up in recent Maine shows but evidently he tightened up the other day. When a pug in being exhibited, he's supposed to curl up his tall and according to the woman from West Roxbury, "That follow can make his tall as tight as my fist; but I can't imagine what happened to him yesterday, why, it he'd just lot it hang it wouldn't have been so conspicuous, but he stuck...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

...Hannibal and Michael Sivy as his younger brother gave assured, first-rate performances. As the character with Mr. Sherwood's best comedy lines and all of his thoughtful ones, Polly Rowles, the Roman wife, acted with such vagueness and ennui that many of her lines just seemed to curl up on the stage floor and die, lacking vitality to cross over the footlights. Miss Rowles in an accomplished actress--but seems in need for better direction in this part...

Author: By George A. Leiper., | Title: The Road to Rome | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

...Well, I'll Curl Up!" Reynolds loves adventure and publicity. In Shanghai, he created riots by giving away Reynolds pens. The expedition's plane developed engine trouble. The hailstorms mentioned in the ominous ode materialized, made flying impossible. Said Reynolds: "This may be called the lousiest, most disorganized expedition in history, but it will still be said: 'They made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Function of Mountains | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...that the whole expedition was called off amid fumes of ill will. One day, the Reynolds plane took off, supposedly to go to the U.S. via Tokyo. When it returned to Shanghai after 14 hours, Bradford Washburn, director of the Boston Museum of Science, exclaimed: "Well, I'll curl up and die! He must have flown over the Amne Machin range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Function of Mountains | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Since sentimentalists in great numbers are always among even such intelligent audiences as TIME'S readers, you have done me a great service by reviewing The Pursuit oj Robert Emmet [TIME, Feb. 23] as though it were a curl-up book suggestive of saccharin and Irish honey. For this I am truly and deeply grateful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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