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...While piping hot dip in cold honey until completely covered. . . ." When we got hot over the blitzkrieg that swept 13 nations out of sight, the Japs began to pour the cold honey. . . . Every contemptible compromise of principle was proposed so that Japan could: ". . insert entire morsel in mouth and leisurely devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...felt by the Communist authorities, the imprisoned Radziwills had become thin and emaciated. Suddenly their Moscow prison rations were changed from short to long. The same official of the Soviet Political Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Polish Pétain? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...greeted by the beautiful Katharina Schratt, "Käthi" to His Majesty. Dressed in full court costume, she would bow low, say "Good morning, Colonel," and wave him in. By 6:30 sharp the two were seated at a good bourgeois breakfast, roaring with laughter over some morsel of court gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRO-HUNGARY: End of K | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Dogs may have small bones, contrary to popular opinion, but it is better if the animal has nothing pressing it to make it "defensively swallow a bone that is too large for the stomach in order to prevent some other dog, cat, or human from getting this choice morsel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterinary Expert Tells Importance of Pet Feeding, Discipline, and Training | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...heckling Nazi radio system, the thought of Britishers being debagged by impolite little Japanese sentries in China has been a constant delight. So an an-schlussed Vienna station this month concocted a morsel of doggerel, in English, commemorating the situation in a vaudeville program relayed by all the other stations in Ostmark. The doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Novel Nudist | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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