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...vagrant, searched him, found in his pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...attention of Laborite Neil MacLean, called sotto voce, "Neil . . . Neil." Six women, they say, knelt.) Brigadier Sir Charles Howard, the Serjeant at Arms (who insists that his title be spelled that way), wearing knee breeches and black silk stockings, bore on his right shoulder the five-foot, knob-headed gilded mace which is the House of Commons' symbol of authority. Then, stiff and staring straight ahead, came the Speaker, handsome Colonel Clifton Brown. His grey wig reached to the shoulders of his long black gown, the train of which was carried by a bearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pomp | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...From knob head to lion feet, Benediction's brutal, bulbous charms were probably lost on the average layman. Most frequent questions by museumgoers: "Is it harping or scratching?" "Why has it got three legs?" If its sculptor, 54-year-old Jacques Lipchitz, had been there to explain, he would have told them that what looks like a third leg is really a simplified drapery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Little Song | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Wunderkind. In San Diego, a cracksman who had twirled the knob of a market safe at midnight, had opened it, and made off with four rolls of pennies, admitted his age to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Yaeju Peak itself, a 560-ft. knob which doughboys dubbed "the Big Apple," was first scaled at night by Company K of the 381st Infantry (96th Division). Explosive charges sealed off a number of caves, but Company K was forced to retire. Before noon the next day, U.S. artillery and mor tars took more bites out of the Big Apple, and Companies I and L tried the ascent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Big Apple | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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