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Today's utilitarian temper, like a wood, rank or otherwise, is wedging its way between the mossy old stones of scholastic tradition. And the Harvard Houses, in their frantic game of leap-frog with Oxford and Cambridge, may yet wake up to find themselves more English than modern England itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWER THAN NEW | 10/22/1931 | See Source »

...singing 'Sweet Adeline,' " says the mate. Routed from the barrels in which they have secreted themselves, the Marx Brothers undertake to distress the other passengers. Harpo, on a kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate, he dives behind the curtain of a Punch & Judy show and pokes his shaggy head out in expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Frog & Sandpiper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

Under heading "Frogs eat Duck," TIME, Aug. 31, I would like to tell you about the big bull frog I found on the sandy shore of Half Moon Pond in New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...never seen such a large frog in my life. Every minute or so he would raise his front leg to his mouth as if wiping his chin. Opening his mouth I pulled out a full grown Sandpiper nearly all swallowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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