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...bossy little girl who, like many another, never quite got over her youth. In spite of temptations she refused to fritter away her seriousness in the usual boy-&-girl business in her small-town set. She went to a small Eastern college, splashed seriously, busily, happily as its Biggest Frog. There she was tempted from her narrow way by a liberal-minded professor, who tried to seduce her but succeeded only in destroying her orthodox faith. After graduation Ann rolled up her sleeves, got into the woman-suffrage fight. From that point on she had few breathing spells. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monster Crusader | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

After reading your magazine a year, I want to inform you, gentlemen, that I'm about ready for a psychopathic specialist. All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Last week Song Sleuth Spaeth turned to song lyrics, dealing in his first program with animal lyrics. Greatest and most universal of these, said he, is "Frog Went a-Courtin'," which is paralleled in the current "Wedding Party of Mickey Mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tune Detective | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...perform. The Republican National Committee had arranged for her to address the Federation of Republican Women's Clubs at Detroit early this month. Soon thereafter the Business & Professional Republican Women's Club of Boston would be waiting to hear her. The Second Lady had to get the frog out of her throat so she could give these audiences some of the oratory that lately has made her a big drawing card in the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Lady | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Visitors interested in Americaua will also be attracted to the unusual first editions of Mark Twain, loaned by B. E. Pollack '32, including "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "Following the Equator," with an autograph copy of the author's dedication, and "Huckle berry Finn," printed in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

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