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...made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper and the other a sprinkler. Wroth, Trotsky called Schachtman "the floating kidney of the working class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anti-Religion | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...more college players who put on a show for U. S. football fans last Saturday, most fabulous was big, blond Paul Christman, quarterback for Missouri. In New York City's Yankee Stadium, Christman's hipper-dipper passes and lunging plunges were the margin between victory and defeat over New York University. But Christman is more than a good footballer, he is an extraordinary one: to him football is just a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...prime attraction was his snuff. Jerry Sadler's desk is littered with empty Garrett Snuff cans and adorned with a tarnished silver snuffbox. Last July he told a snuff-dippers' convention: "Every old-line politician lined up against me. But I had one advantage . . . I was a snuff dipper. As a boy it was sometimes my duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sadler in the Saddle | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...over thirty years the Yard struggled through an unnatural existence without its pump. Finally in 1936 the University took action; a new pump was resurrected for the Tercentenary Celebrations and was duly christened and primed with a silver-plated dipper before an enthusiastic delegation of old graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Pump Primers Initiate New Year as Water Flows from Yard Pump | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy Blue and Gold, "nobody cares greatly whether you win or lose. But Navy cares greatly how you play the game." How they play the game in this film, under the hipper-dipper cinema coaching of Hollywood Director Sam Wood, is enough to make old-time Annapolis Coach Navy Bill Ingram turn over in his present berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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