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...absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Possum with Snob Appeal | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...violence attended the picketing, although members of the show tried to discourage the union men by occasionally running out into Holyoke Street exclaiming. "Gee, this will be great for publicity," and going inside again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A.F.L. Pickets 'Seeing Red' | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

...Gee, you look like too nice a guy to be hanging around with these crums." At a Gerald L.K. Smith rally a theatre usherette was speaking to Gordon Hall, investigator of Fascist groups, lecturer, and publisher of the monthly "Countertide." Hall, posing as a fascist, was then holding a top post in the Smith organization...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Silhouette | 11/6/1951 | See Source »

Even on the practice field, with nothing at stake, Kazmaier frets & fumes during the ten minutes of each session devoted entirely to the Kazmaier specialty, the running pass. Just last week, barely overshooting his targets, Kazmaier complained to Caldwell: "Gee, I can't do anything right." Before a game, says Caldwell, "Dick gets so wound up that we never let him handle the ball on the first play from scrimmage-and all the scouts know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kazmaier's Day | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...commotion broke out in the audience, which was composed of followers of the suspended priest, the bums and degenerates that flock to the Common, and a solid core of hecklers. The latter began to shout questions as the speaker steadfastly shrilled on. The interruptions obviously disturbed Father Feeney. "Gee, gimme a chance, I've been out here a year and a half," he pleaded at one point...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/16/1951 | See Source »

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