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...OCDiva to Fiorello LaGuardia's OCDemon of the Office of Civilian Defense, she had contributed the lioness' share to the air of bustling nonsense which has characterized OCD. This week Mayor LaGuardia, by promising to resign as head man of OCD, somewhat cleared the air and quieted the room. But no sooner had he done so than Eleanor Roosevelt set the shouts and murmurs going again louder than ever. The suspicion that the OCDiva regarded OCD as her particular plaything was deepened by the appearance of her newly summoned playmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Eleanor's Playmates | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...fascination to literate housewives. There are three women in his life, all at once. One is his Bostonian fiancée Agnes, niece of General Wicks, who has charge of New Orleans. Another is a ruddy whoremistress who uses imitation gold dust in her hair and looks like a lioness. The third is a depraved Irish-French Baroness whose very touch, one is led to believe, can drive a man out of his right mind (she dabbles in sorcery to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two for the Show | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Washington no owl hooted in the market place at high noon; no man's hand was aflame "like twenty torches join'd"; there was no dreadful night of thunder & lightning, of yawning graves and skittering ghosts; no two-headed dogs were seen; no lioness whelped in the street. There were no such signs or portents anywhere. Yet very soon now, on a Monday at high noon, a U. S. President would be inaugurated for a third term-a fact as gravid with significance to the U. S. as Julius Caesar's fatal Ides of March were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Act | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...Tarzan and his chimpanzee chum when they rescue her from a tumble into a morass. When he places an amoral hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny motions, meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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