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...Manipuri with their rusting muskets and their home-ground powder made of goat dung, war is better as a sport; the modern, murdering, burning, bombing kind is hard to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Maiden's Lament | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...Kirkwood: Is the Secretary for War aware that the soldiers are just about breaking into riots about these cigarets, because they say they are made of horse dung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: V as in Horse | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back to the farm, the peasants emptied the dregs into their dung shovels, hungrily sucked up the liquid filth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj" was, as all Mississippians knew, Judge Paul B. Johnson (later Governor), Sullens' bitterest political foe. In May 1940 Johnson attacked Sullens with a cane in a Jackson hotel lobby; both men were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Southern Scorcher | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl necklace round his neck, and finally smeared his whole body with a mixture of goat dung and aspic. From this there emerged, says Dali, "Miracle of miracles!-the 'exact' odor of the ram . . . a stifling stench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not So Secret Life | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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