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...realizes that his precious plumbing has actually been shipped in such a boat, he rushes to the rescue with a full panoply of American Efficiency: chartered planes, long-distance calls, press conferences, do-it-yourself. He is met by Scots Canniness: the wandering eye, the mislaid wallet, the pensive loiter, the unprevented calamity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...inflicted by Don Camillo, launches a big "Poker Tournament for the Peace Crusade." Peppone personally wins for the Communists. To neutralize the Red victory, Don Camillo challenges the mayor to an extra poker match, not in the tavern, of course, where it would be improper for a priest to loiter at cards, but across the tavern's windowsill. Peppone slips in a marked deck. But Don Camillo wins-by slipping in his own marked deck in place of Peppone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Laugh at Communism | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Come dally me, darling, dally me with kisses, loiter me with lingers while the Romes all burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrow Refuge | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...first Trib article ran. Peggy phoned Norma Lee at midnight: "I'm in jail again." She had met two musician friends, known addicts, and gone for a ride. Police stopped their car because its lights were off, and arrested all three under a law which forbids addicts to "loiter." The afternoon papers gleefully splashed the story on their front pages. Brayed Hearst's Herald-American: 'i WAS AN ADDICT' GIRL HELD WITH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sob Sister's Job | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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