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...Fever, one of Noel Coward's first big sneezes, should be more than just a Gesundheit for Faye Emerson. Peter Pagan and Mitchell Erickson will also appear. Kennebunkport, Me., through July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 19, 1963 | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Reading Harriman's 1956 budget message, Republican Heck suddenly leaped to his feet and cried: "Haruspex!" Some of his associates thought of answering "Gesundheit," but others quietly went to the dictionary. Heck soon had Albany reporters flipping through Webster's, after he and Senate Majority Leader Walter Mahoney issued a statement that said, in part: "If, as Governor Harriman seems to infer, Republican clairvoyance was required last year to determine that he did not need the $127 million tax increase which he demanded, our forecast has proven far more accurate than the divinations of the Democrat haruspex, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Haruspicy in Albany | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...answer. "Shoot everyone in the second row." Finally, when the smell of gunpowder had drifted away a second time, a timid character rose diffidently in the third row. "C-c-c-omrade Stalin," he stammered, "it was I who s-s-s-sneezed." "Ah," said the dictator genially: "Gesundheit!" and the meeting went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...needs his conscience most, despairs when Pinocchio despairs, is chirpingly cheerful when the puppet is. He is a fresh little fellow, too, who always calls Pinocchio "Pinoak," yells, "Break it up, boys," to the marine life that gets under his feet. When Monstro the Whale sneezes catastrophically, Jiminy says: "Gesundheit." Most people will call Jiminy Cricket the most human character in Pinocchio and Disney's best inspiration. Grimmest inspiration is Pleasure Island, where little boys turn into asses. Not the moral, but the one vulgarly realistic false note, will scare the wits out of little boys and girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...gives a world's record burp. GESUNDHEIT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Film Book | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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