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...voice from Paris was curt: "If they are French fleas, Monsieur, they will soon return to France. Swiss skins are too near the surface for our fleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Long-Distance Call . .. | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...description is half right-the Daily Express sells for a penny. Otherwise, the Express is curt, concise, sometimes sensational, sometimes angrily opinionated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...cancan or chahut," says Curt Sachs' World History of the Dance, "is the enfant terrible of ... choral dances. Leg thrust and leap are its most characteristic features; the best dancer is the one who can knock the spectator's hat off his head with her foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: H.R.H. Fifi | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

About a month after Meyer Tobiansky's disappearance, the Jewish government issued a curt announcement: Tobiansky had been convicted of treason by a Haganah court-martial and shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Son of Goodness | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile Curt, the second brother, is wandering through the snow-checked valleys, tracking the panther which killed his brother. This man is the real master of the family, the hunter, the bully, the realist who has scoffed at his brothers for believing the tales of their old Indian handyman about a black panther as big as a horse who can't to killed with bullets. Clark really hits his stride in the description of curt's gradual disintegration under the onslaught of snow, time, hunger, fatigue, fear, and his own imagination. The long, magnificently told story of curt's hunt...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmean, | Title: Clark's Third Novel: Lonelinesss, Cold, and Terror in the West | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

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