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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...