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...spot such specimens as the mournful mastiff, the excitable spitz, the busy dachshund with his close-set lawyer's eyes, the bloodhound with his air of sad preoccupation. Furthermore, there is an engaging and familiar quality about the aimless circling, the friendly tail-wagging, the snoozing and occasional fang-baring which take place on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Animal Fair | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...pythons, hundreds of other mammals and reptiles. A specialist in beasts of southern Asia, Dealer Buck owned zoos, wrote (with collaborators) an autobiography (All in a Lifetime) and six other books which furnished material for a number of successful feature movies (Bring 'Em Back Alive, Wild Cargo, Fang and Claw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...evil,' said Beelzebub to the snake, 'and most deadly is your fang; but you cannot wound from afar like the deadly tongue of the slanderer, from which there is no escape, even though mountains or oceans intervene. It is clear that he is more evil, so give place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Battle of the Fables | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Lost." Kolachi village, on the way, no longer smoked but the smell of burnt thatch and straw (set ablaze by mortar shells) hung pungently over all. Its cottages were roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eighteen Levels Down | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Drew Pearsonish columnist, is no more effective than Pearson would be playing Johnson; Menjou (in a double-breasted vest) is rather more Menjou than politician. Only Lansbury, whom Metro has long dieted on lean parts, does any real acting. As the adderish lady publisher, she sinks a fine fang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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