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...sanity before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among the multitude to have warmed a frog. Scenes of Saturnalian abandonment had been enacted-frenzied dancing, delirious overtures, posturing, French embraces and the parade of "beauty unadorned," in which "La Belle Hélène," a highland peasant wench but lately come to Paris, had been elected "Empress of the Voluptuous Contours" and suitably saluted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ball | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Many a prurient and self-righteous U. S. racing pilot cried: "No wonder the A. A. A. socked him with a spanner! No Roumanian wop-frog who's livin' with a red-headed Jewess in Paris while his morganatic wife sues him for 10 million francs and his real wife is Princess Helen of Greece, should ought to be allowed in an American garage. I'll say his name is 'Morry Turp'! Moral Turpitude is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carol v. A. A. A. | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...American Mercury is a publication that comes out once a month in a frog-green cover for 50¢. Its writers push their noses against a cold mirror and squint at the mystical films their misting breaths design. They like to "show up" insipidities. They do so skillfully. But often what they tootle as an insipidity is verily the heart-belief of many honest folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptist Baiter | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...eagles with 1,000 ft. wingspread; panthers with 350-ft. tails. The Great Serpent Mound (Adams County, Ohio) is 1,348 ft. long, following the curves of the body and the triple-coiled tail. The opened jaws are 75 ft. across, yawning at a smaller mound -which resembles a frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mound Builders | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...Damn it, Sir! We fought to set the slaves free! And we did it with none of your 14 piddling points and treaties made in a frog king's palace! Damn it, Sir! Who ever heard of the Marne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: At Grand Rapids | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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