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...disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree to palm in long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere is the reek of fermentation, steaming shadows, the sopor of death, the enervating process of procreation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latin Prose | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...done nothing but raise hell and drink lemon essence since! I married him eight years ago, and I got to feed seven kids of his. Maybe you can get him to carry a gun. He's good on squirrels and eating. Take him and welcome. I need the grub and his bed for the kids. Don't tell him this, but just take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - DRAFT: Helpmate | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...signed Dean as a cockeye after watching him pitch rocks at squirrels. Dizzy patiently explains: "I throw so hard with my right arm that I squash up them squirrels somethin' turrible and they ain't fit eatin'. . . . When I'm out rustlin' up our grub ... I got to throw left-handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Diz on Diz | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Grub gabble: A female assemblage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jabberwocky | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Geneticist William Bateson was so backward in school that his headmaster wrote: "It is very doubtful whether so vague and aimless a boy will profit by University life." He remained fabulously vague: he would buy a ticket to a play and show up by mistake at a musical show, grub in his garden in a brand-new suit and go to London in dirty old garden flannels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Freedom to be Queer | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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