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...alarm box for ladies in distress which fits pocket or purse was advertised by a New York department store: "Though we hope you'll never have to use it, if you should sense, danger, simply flick a little button and the Beau Alarm releases a shrill, penetrating siren shriek that positively cannot be stopped until it runs down and that can be heard for blocks around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

When the Council finally convened, President Bramuglia put the Little Six compromise proposal to a vote. Arc lights blazed and a hundred cameras clicked as Vishinsky's hand, pausing on its way to flick an invisible speck of dust from its owner's black suit, sharply stabbed the air. "We cannot accept . . ." said Vishinsky. It was Russia's 28th veto. Said the U.S.'s Philip Jessup: "In the judgment of the world . . . if the Berlin question is not settled . . . the responsibility of failure will rest squarely and unavoidably on the government of the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Lesson for Juan | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...kind of a guy who would gladly travel to the Opera House and pay the price of admission just to see Bobby Clark flick ashes in a poor play. Last night I did just that. I saw Mike Todd's latest, a trinket--it looks like about a third of a million dollars' worth of trinket--called "As the Girls Go." The show was lavish, polished, populated with every pretty girl this side of Billy Rose--and dull...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...reached in his pocket and handed me a [diamond] bracelet . . . which must have cost $20,000. I snatched it from him and flung it into a corner. Flo didn't flick an eye to see where it went, but I did, and Patricia Ziegfeld still wears it on very formal occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...become law anyway not later than December 1949. Until then, all Acts of Parliament would continue to carry the traditional preamble: "Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons . . ." But afterward, a final flick of the Parliament Bill provided, even the words "the Lords" would disappear from the preambles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Peers Among Socialists | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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