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...week was smiling, 220-lb. Paul Parker, who runs the trim, modern Fine Art Center Museum in the small (pop. 37,000) Rocky Mountain resort of Colorado Springs. Priceless masterpieces from famous museums all over the U.S. were arriving at his back door by the truckload. Spouting South Dakota cuss words at a crew of workmen, Director Parker carefully unloaded the valuable arrivals, stored them away in a basement maze of gigantic vertical steel racks. By last week the number of arrivals, including top-flight Cézannes, Daumiers, Goyas and Van Dycks, had reached 59, topped an aggregate value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Refugee Art | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...spoke a contrary cuss last week to denounce one of the established institutions of modern war: the blackout. Said A. F. Dickerson, who heads the General Electric Co. Lighting Division at Schenectady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Lightouts? | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Gerald Mann doesn't cuss, doesn't drink, is slight, quick, deep-eyed, and keeps his weight down to his quarterback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Free-for-all | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...suddenly opens to leave an inference the size of a bomb crater. He has spent a great part of his years holding his tongue. Henderson is a great babbler who wakes up sounding his "A" and holds it all day, roaring through his work in a rich torrent of cuss words, grunts and bellows, like a bull of Bashan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: All Out | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Typical Dear Mom chatter: "How do I feel about the Army? Boy, it's gonna be my meat and gravy. I'm sure anticipatin' it with relish. All I want is to find some body I can cuss-you know . . . like them two guys in the movies did . . . Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dear Mom | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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