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...Skull. For those who are in any degree sophisticates, this murder mystery, of which the scene is a "deserted" church overpopulated with skull-headed bats and international criminals, will seem hardly more terrifying than a picture of Daddy Browning saying "Boo!" to an African gander. Those who are more willing shock-absorbers will conceivably shiver at its second-hand devices and be ready to believe that the door-slammings and women-screechings were really all part of a plan for trapping a desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...African Gander," by Simeon Pickering, depicts rather startlingly, for the first time, a well-known young woman reclining on a sofa with no clothes on at all. A sad gander meditates her buxom figure while the young married woman herself contemplates a bowl of "peaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Freedom, Drunkenness | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...foot-ball players of the college a Roland for their Oliver, by adopting a set of resolutions applicable to the foot-ball team, similar to those adopted in the case of the lacrosse club of Columbia College last season. "What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," and, under this rule, why should not the foot-ball team be disbanded on account of their failure to win a single match of the championship as much as the lacrosse team of the college a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/2/1882 | See Source »

...GANDER Green Adolphus Gosling

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...gander...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FABLE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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