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...wooden leg. Singing at her lover from a parapet, Soprano Moore pounded the scenery like a Bronx housewife pounding a counter, raised a cloud of dust that cruelly dispelled the mood of the moment. Obviously the Metropolitan needed not only more conductors like Guest Montemezzi, but also a good duster-wielding housekeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three Kings | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Waving Feather Duster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mcllwain, Wernette, Gardner Boom Willkie | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

Accusing the President of following a policy of "calling names and waving a big feather duster," Professor Wernette cited business indices in his appeal for defense and prosperity. In his view, Roosevelt is the greatest "bottleneck" of all in the defense program because of his desire to investigate each item of the program before it goes into effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mcllwain, Wernette, Gardner Boom Willkie | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

Foremost sightseer was a little man in a light brown duster who slipped practically unnoticed into the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. Adolf Hitler gazed down at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte, another "Little Corporal" whose star had soared to a zenith equaled only by his own before it sputtered and plunged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Armistice & After | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...DELIVER AMERICA FROM THIS MODERN DON QUIXOTE. ROOSEVELT THE SECOND UPSETS ANOTHER CHERISHED AMERICAN TRADITION. ABANDONING THE SLOGAN, SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK, MADE POPULAR BY TEDDY THE GREAT, OUR REBEL-ROUSING ROOSEVELT MAKES IT READ "BRAY LOUDLY AND BRANDISH A FEATHER DUSTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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