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...Throwing back his head with a quick jerk and popping both eyes stark wide for emphasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: ITALY Platform Face | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Paul his well-brought-up grandchildren gravely discussed engines with the President's chauffeur. Everyone was given a pre-Christmas present. All the servants were told they could have the whole day Christmas off. Toward the end of the lunch President von Hindenburg dozed, woke up with a jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy New Year? | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...hear seven-fifty? It's against you in the back of the room. Seven-fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days the sale went on: rapiers, helmets, cannon, snaphaunces (immediate ancestor of flintlock muskets), silver candlesticks, paintings, ivory carvings, gilded chairs, diamond brooches, jade-handled daggers, bottles of perfume, all the opulent impedimenta of one of the most amazing families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Doge of Elmhurst | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...only one other (a Cuban) in the whole world, so far as is known, can do. He can pop his right eye out of his head, and draw it back into its socket. If that does not startle the beholder, he will pop out the left eye, then jerk the pair alternately in and out, like the boy & girl of the Swiss chalet barometer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye Popper | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...longer can the seasoned ballyhoo man in the passing charabane jerk a grimed finger at the old house, and in condescending monotone comment on Noo Yawk's mystery house, home of Ella Wendel, richest unmarried dame the country's got. The public has laughed for the last time at the dying Wendels; for Ella's nearest of kin is Tobey, the poodle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW YORKER | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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