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The chain reaction that led to such drollery started back in 1876, when, according to the chroniclers, Ralph Curtis '76, "celebrated for his skill at caricature," Samuel Sherwood '76, "a clever draughtsman," and Arthur Sherwood '77, "the life of every party which he joined," put their moustaches together in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/15/1946 | See Source »

He backed away, flicking his paws. He burned villages down to the last henhouse as he withdrew and, when he had time, and felt like it, killed more civilians for daring to wear a look of hope.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Through a Bloody Haze | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

By that time, however, one of the cagiest men in one of the cooniest communities in the U.S. had seen Miss Bergman's Intermezzo. He usually got what he was after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: For Whom? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

He sat on the packing box in his room, flicking pieces of paper into the wastebasket in the middle of the bare floor. Then he heard a knock on the door. He got up slowly and opened it, but there was nobody there.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh! You Cain't Keep Dawgs Or Wimmin in Your Roo-om | 5/27/1943 | See Source »

Margaret Woodrow Wilson, now 56, and a spinster, broke with her family's Scotch-Irish Presbyterian traditions years ago when she stalked from church during Communion service. Flicking through catalogue cards in the New York Public Library four years ago, she came upon Sri Aurobindo's Essays on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dishta of Pondicherry | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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