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...short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning to night, for four days, droves of children were run through an assembly-line routine: pants down, an alcohol swab on the buttock, the jab of a needle, and then a lollipop to shut their mouths. Total shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gamma Globulin Season | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...good news for the lollipop trade: Madeline is back, with her eleven straight-living little boarding-school friends and the noble Schoolmistress Clavel, in a rousing sequel. In Madeline's Rescue, Bemelmans takes up where he left off when he noted earlier of Madeline: "And nobody knew so well / How to frighten Miss Clavel." One of the frightening things Madeline liked to do was walking on bridge railings. This time she falls into the Seine, and "Poor Madeline would now be dead / But for a dog / That kept its head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Lollipop Trade | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...laced on hir legges hye;/ She was a prymerole, a pigges-nye, Coghill, aware that no modern woman would care to be compared to a pig's eye, freshens her up like this: High shoes she wore, and laced them to the top./ She was a daisy, () a lollipop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...face down on an examination table, her buttocks bared. Dr. Byron P. York, prominent Houston physician who volunteered for the job, picked up a syringe bearing the same number as Pat's card and gave her the shot. Pat's whimpering was soon stilled with a lollipop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Betting on G. G. | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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