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...help. You hear the flames roar as a window bursts. You grab the arm of the first person you meet and ask: ''Is everyone out of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Credit Given | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...Wynn's Carnival, The Perfect Fool The Grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Irish Belittled | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...chance to go downstairs and make up the next day's issue, to take the type in your hands and but in the forms, to lop off a bit here and another bit there so a column may be compressed into a half column space; a chance to grab with ink-stained fingers the first copy to come off the press and eagerly look for mistakes, mistakes which you are all too apt to find and which you are all too apt to find and which you must open the forms and correct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVALUATES BENEFITS OF CRIMSON NEWS TRAINING | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...real object of the shop," explained Mr. Whouley to the CRIMSON last night," is to let the follows grab a hot dog and be sociable while they're buying their tobacco next door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Whouley Rises to Succeed Larry the Hot Dog Man as Purveyor to the College of Frankfurters and Rolls | 10/13/1925 | See Source »

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