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...Drat that alarm clock! The Vagabond, lying in bed in a somewhat comatose state of vacuity, vaguely wondered where his left arm might be. He wanted to use that arm, too, as the alarm clock bothered him, and he felt that for humane reasons he ought to be kind to his poor aching head, and shut that infernal buzzer off. But he certainly wasn't going to be able to cope with any alarm clock if he couldn't find his arm. Yes, he remembered, he had missed his left arm last night in the taxi; was it a taxi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/26/1937 | See Source »

...tarantara. tarantara, BOOM-de-ay-BOOM-de-ay-BOOM!'' But a old farmer got up in the group an' said, "We all know th' English people is a fine, good-hearted people, an' George V is a real king, an' no mistake, but. drat it all. they is a limit to things. All th' credit in th' world to th' King of England an' th' English people; but we don't have to be Ovendales about it! I say, leave off the boom-de-ay." Then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1934 | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

There 60-year-old Bluebeard Drat said to his police guards, "Kill me right away, don't bother me with questions about women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Then from Algiers came sailing toward Marseilles, last week, another Barbe Blue, with 18 women to his discredit. He was 60, and named Jerome Drat. Through some occult divination the Marseilles poor unequalled for viciousness in all France, decided that the two Barbe Bleus were the same man under different aliases, and prepared to give him a brick-and-bludgeon reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...fifth of a series of lectures on "L'Ocuvre de Pierre Corneille," which is being given by Professor Henri Guy Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Toulouse and Exchange Professor of French Literature, will be given in Emerson Drat 8 o'clock this evening. Professor Guy will speak on "Ls Rome ideals: la politique." The meeting is open to the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Guy Gives Fifth Lecture | 3/7/1921 | See Source »

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