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...Twombly, former Oregon-Washington State Champion will fight Bullitt is the 135-pound class tomorrow. The two have met twice before in university championship, and Bullitt has won by as eyelash each time. Don, incidentally, passed his physical test for the Marines yesterday morning. Although he was turned down when he applied the first times because of a defective left eye he crank carrot juice and milk, on the advice of the doctors, and passed with flying colors yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bullitt Will Fight Mike Brody in "Heavyweight" Class as 40 Enter University Championships | 3/11/1942 | See Source »

...bulldog, planned the Finland strategies, which were lauded by most neutral observers and bungled in the field handling. He is the only Red officer to have been decorated by the Tsar, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin-testimony to a political nature as canny as it is adaptable. (Without batting an eyelash, he sat on the tribunal which court-martialed and condemned eight of his old Army colleagues, including the late, great Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: The Great Battle | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...optimistic angle I invite (yea, plead) fan mail. I understand wisdom rules at your school and you all go around wrinkling your cortexes over weighty problems for the good of posterity. Well, at this school (Texas State College for Women, largest girl's school on this globe) the eyelash curler rules and we, all go around fluttering flirtatious furbelows at susceptible Profs. I hear you men all have jaw-breaking vocabularies. Well, we can polish the old apple to perfection--so maybe that makes us even. On the whole, I'll wager Harvard brushes its teeth just about as TSCW...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

...Sure, I can do it five times without batting an eyelash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...revolution period has been the Soviet cinema's favorite topic, but it has never before presumed to characterize its now-deified hero. Actor Shchukin's profile is Lenin's to the eyelash. From biographies, letters, newsreels and associates of Lenin he got Lenin's impatient, nervously-energetic demeanor down pat. In the film he thumbs his vest, shifts uneasily whenever he has to stay seated, drives his points home with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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