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...Wise guys! I open up the doors at six o'clock in the morning. One day I'm making coffee. A maniac comes in. 'Hey, jerk,' he says, 'gimme a cupa coffee.' Jerk! You're not in business to fight, right? A physical altercation can spoil the nickels. 'Derelict,' I say, 'don't disturb my equanimity.' So again he insults me-a hollow hulk like that. So I say to him: 'Your idiocy is very refreshing.' So he gets sore and wants to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: An Englishman Looks at the U.S. | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...navigator of a Flying Fortress, Captain Richard Davisson has 24 missions over Europe to his credit, has returned from all unharmed. Last week, in an air-base privy, Fortressman Davisson gave the chain a hurried jerk, brought down a Royal Doulton tank on his unhelmeted head, suffered an angry head gash. From barracks comrades came unsympathetic jeers, no recommendations for the Purple Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Unhappy Landing | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...those Germans who went to the polls voted for the Nationalist, Catholic, Social Democratic and Communist Parties. The Nazi exchequer was empty and Hitler told Goebbels he was thinking of suicide. It was then that powerful, anti-democratic Germans holding the strings of statecraft decided to jerk Hitler up into power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man in the Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

This week the Gannett Washington bureau opened with a good, hardworking, conservative newspaperman as its head. Chunky, balding, cigar-smoking Cecil Bunyan Dickson is 44, a onetime cowboy, soda jerk, Marine, A.P.man, I.N.S.man and, until he took his new job, chief reporter of the Chicago Sun's Washington bureau. He is a Texas-minded John Garner man, a great friend of Speaker Sam Rayburn, and the tough, independent kind of reporter who never trades news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. Gannett's Discovery | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Shohiza-punk or jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Leatherneck Lingo | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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