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...panto cat, goose, monkey, donkey or horse, which romps amidst the audience and is played, as a rule, by some little old man who has donned his moth-eaten pelts every Christmas for the past 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Christmas Pantomime | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...welcome in Moscow from the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS). Out of Mombasa, British East Africa, bound for New York, steamed a merchant ship captained by Jonathan M. Wainwright V, the General's son, whose charges included an ostrich, a wildcat, a ringtailed monkey, four pythons and six hyenas. Across the U.S. on a lecture tour streaked Randolph Churchill, who was having hair-raising luck. While he was doing 50 on an Indiana highway a wheel flew off, but the car somehow remained right side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Wizards | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...could rightly say that ponderous David Ignatius Walsh was a wild-eyed New Dealer who threw monkey wrenches at business. David Walsh is a conservative Democrat who has held his seat in the U.S. Senate for 26 years; along the way he has done many a favor for Massachusetts manufacturers and businessmen, many of them Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sugar, Soap & Shirts | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...notes sent last week to Soviet Russia and two of its European satellites it warned that it was tired of Communist monkey business with the peace of Europe and that its patience would stand for just so much. Within three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hard Words | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Also-rans included a tight-trousered farmer holding two Japanese flags, two old soldiers with elaborate monkey faces, and a tall samurai (honorable warrior) dolled up in a black kimono and sporting real hair wound into a topknot. The show's general manager, a weathered old farmer who looked more like a scarecrow than some of the exhibits, was moved to remark with a sly smile that "samurai now hold no terror for crows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art at Work | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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