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...latest ten stories from the dean are the same bally old mixtures as before and will be ruddily gulped down by Wodehouse fans. The serious student of English will not fare so well: any page chosen at random will leave him (in the Wodehouse phrase) with the "drawn, haggard look . . . a man wears when one of his drives, intended to go due north, has gone nor'-nor'-east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Blighter | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...safe to say that Samuel F. B. Ferdly had never looked worse. His face was haggard, his jaw hung open, his body slumped and sagged. He lay sprawled across the living room couch as if he had been dropped there and lacked the strength to move...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Mother's Ruin | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, President Eisenhower approved the first change in the penny's design since the Indian disappeared in 1909. By Feb. 12, the U.S. Mint will be well stocked with bright new copper coins. On the face will be the familiar, haggard profile. On the reverse side will be a new front view of the Lincoln Memorial, a rearrangement of the old words: "One Cent." "United States of America." "E Pluribus Unum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Next morning, a little haggard after a sleepless night, Stewart went with Rogers to the White House for a 20-minute talk with the President, emerged youngest man to be named to the Supreme Court since Franklin Roosevelt tabbed 40-year-old William O. Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Ohio Exchange | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Casting a haggard eye at the results, Maine's surviving G.O.P. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, whose vote margin dropped 12% in 1954, said: "We took a shellacking." Added Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty: "The President views it as I do. We took a beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Gain in Maine | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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