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...have had enough of diplomatic appeasement and apologies for it, enough of "Little Steel formulas" made of papier-mâché, enough of "States' Rights" shouted from astride pork barrels. . . . We are fed up with weak-kneed Administrations, Congresses, political parties (both of them). Give us even so much as one individual in all those places who will follow the policy of frankness and confidence, and he can have anything America can give. Remember that all political power still is delegated by the people. And they take away. The people know exactly what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...beast was no longer skinny and bag-kneed; its once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler tiptoed up and made quiet, shushing nursery-noises until the pachyderm was soothed and drowsy again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahout | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Cockeye Johnny, self-styled King of the Gypsies. Says Johnny: "To the Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bowery Botanist | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

...Pennington, dimple-kneed darling of the late Ziegfeld Follies, was back on Broadway in hoopskirts for this week's revival of The Student Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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