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...Leibowitz, creating "sentiment that might not allow a fair trial." Interviewed by a northern newshawk about the Alabama jurors. Leibowitz was quoted as saying, "If you ever saw those creatures; those bigots, whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy, you would not ask how they could do it." At a mass meeting last week, Harlem Negroes hailed Leibowitz as "a new Moses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with mucous membranes well seasoned, take 'old fashioned whiskey cocktails. One hundred thousand dollars were spent in decorating the inside of a small dining room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...herself in the tenor's rooms for the night. So childlike and pure is she that he puts her to bed with a huge teddy bear and goes to sleep on the sofa. He surprises her and probably himself the next morning by proposing marriage. Since she has fallen drip-pingly in love with him the only obstacle to be disposed of is the fiance who arrives hotfoot from jail. They send him out to wait in a taxi and forget all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...other picture, "The Princess and the Plumber" is frankly unadulterated drip. There is the usual creaking comedy, old castles, symphony orchestras hidden under sofas, and bad dialogue whined vociferously through the nose by Charles Farrell and Maureen O'Sullivan...

Author: By H. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/17/1931 | See Source »

...Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands of affectionate graduates, hundreds of respectful schoolboys, they are and always will be known respectively as "The Drip," "Pee-bo," and "Twill." St. Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest. For 36 of the school's 64 years he has managed and governed St. Mark's, punished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Twill | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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