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...fussed with a recalcitrant eyelash, she branched off into foreign affairs long enough to go on record in favor of a Pan-American Union. She said "I love everything and everybody, and that's why I've never had a flop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupe Velez Impartial Toward College Boys; Toby Wing Picks Harvard Men | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

...completed within an hour. With new tires on Bluebird, Sir Malcolm started his second run with eight minutes of the hour left. After averaging his time for the two runs, American Automobile Association officials announced the result as 299.875 m.p.h. Disgusted at having missed his objective by an eyelash, Driver Campbell said he would try again next morning. Four hours later, he was told that a bungling timer had made an error in arithmetic and that his correct speed was 301.337. Said Sir Malcolm: "The news comes somewhat flat but I am glad to hear it. . . . I feel that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bluebird at Bonneville | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...answers are a mystery, but tradition will be enriched on the afternoon June 18. It always is at Poughkeepsie, no matter whether the race is as slow as of 1929 or as close as the eyelash Syracuse-Cornell finish of 1908 and Washington Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNOWING'S BIGGEST Thrill, "They're Off" at Poughkeepsie | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

...wrong idea. I told him so and he told me to shut my mouth. . . . Looking at things as they are today, I'd say that me'n Paul would win 45 games this season, and the Cardinals will win the pennant by an eyelash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: New Season | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...Boys and the Anti-Saloon League had good lobbies at the Capital. But their purposes and methods become incidental chicanery compared to the organized crime perpetrated by the retail drug concerns and their gag rule over the American press. When young girls are going blind from the effects of eyelash brightener, when the American Medical Association traces dozens of deaths to a supposedly harmless remedy for rheumatism, when drug cures for gallstones are sold at every pharmacy, and it is known that the infirmity can only be cured by operation, it appears time to divert these Borgias...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRUGS ON THE MARKET | 2/20/1934 | See Source »

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