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...Books in your March 19 issue of TIME, you show a photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger, and I failed to see any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat," although I do not propose to vie with any member of TIME'S staff to detect a resemblance of a horseface, frog-face, pig-face, or fat-cheeked-rat"-face in man. If you really meant by this statement that his character was ratlike, why not be honest about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

Wrote Arthur Brisbane in his syndicolumn: "If bullfrogs . . . had a beauty contest, only the legs would count, legs being all of a frog that counts. . . . Something more is asked of a young woman. ... In any beauty contest the forehead should count 60, eyes 20, mouth and figure each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...their state receptions for officials of government departments. Among the guests who arrived in a snow storm was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. She had on a set of gold Hindu earrings in the shape of cornucopias, a red-gold chain about her neck from which dangled a green-gold frog fashioned by the Chiriqui Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Be Hard-Boiled | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...hole, the first person Alice meets, swimming about in a puddle of the tears which she has wept before eating the cake which reduces her to appropriate Wonderland size, is a Mouse (Raymond Hattonj who dislikes her instantly. Next she encounters the Dodo; the supercilious Caterpillar (Ned Sparks); the Frog-Foot-man (Sterling Holloway); the hideous Duchess (Alison Skipworth) maltreating an infant; the Cheshire Cat (Richard Arlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Wonderland | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

None other than Craigavon's bitterest enemy, President de Valera of the Irish Free State (Southern Ireland), was elected a member of the Northern Ireland Parliament by the constituency of South Down. This kar-rumpf in his own puddle by a frog bigger than himself immensely shocked Craigavon. But it was no new thing. Favoring de Valera's croaking for a union of Northern with Southern Ireland, in 1921 and 1925 South Down elected him their member. Then a private citizen, he was barred both times from crossing the border. Now the head of a neighbor state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: NORTHERN IRELAND Member from South Down | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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