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Quite right, said Reader Peter G. Masefield of Reigate, Surrey. "Some years ago I copied out, from an 18th Century book on the 'Lore of the Chase,' 88 collective terms for various birds and beasts, among them, on the domestic side, a 'kindle of kittens,' and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Clowder & Kindle | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

"The Apaches as a tribe are yellow curs without any fighting ability," says Colonel Henry Fonda about five minutes after the RKO rooster quits yawping at the audience. The remainder of this courageous-last-stand-in-the-sage-brush saga sets out to disprove the good Colonel's thesis, a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fort Apache | 6/9/1948 | See Source »

While the nation's attention is absorbed by the Lilienthal case, budget and tax curs, and labor legislation, the Republican leadership with unusually little noise and difficulty has obtained all bit final Congressional approval for a constitutional amendment limit Presidential tenure. This piece of "must" legislation is another all-too...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Term Filmflam | 2/21/1947 | See Source »

Missourians heard strange news from their sons and brothers in Alaska. There the Army camps are overrun with dogs -mongrels and curs of all descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look at the World | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

But Bambi grows up, and with horns he loses his cuteness. He also loses his baby voice, his spots, his mother. The hunters, who kill her, hunt Bambi and his bride, a doe named Faline. A pack of nightmarish hounds with luminous fangs (probably the most terrifying curs since Cerberus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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