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Yankee Pasha (Universal-International). "A tasty morsel," the slave trader coos, "should always be well-served." He claps his hands and some Moorish slaves drag in the beautiful white captive (Rhonda Fleming), who writhes seductively through the rents in her muslin. "I'm not one to submit with servility!" she cries, for she is a New England miss. "Such spirit amuses me," murmurs Omar, the Aga of the Janissaries (Bart Roberts), lecherously twirling his lip-tussock, and off she is hauled to his harem, there to be anointed with fragrant scents that drive the Aga gaga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harem-Scare'em | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...G.O.P.'s Lincoln Day box supper in the capital, where some 7,000 bigwig Republicans dealt with fried chicken (tickets: $1.50 each), Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, in a frolicsome mood, fed his wife Jessie a tasty morsel without benefit of silverware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...tung wealthy Hong Kong is a tempting morsel. Presumably Mao has but to declare his appetite, and the Crown Colony's 10,000 Britons, who live in a 391-sq. mi. territory with 2,000,000 Chinese in their midst, would be swallowed up almost overnight. Hong Kong's usual response to this has been to scratch Red China's back and to be as accommodating as possible to the Chinese within its gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: We Shall Return | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...come like a lion, with wings on, and eat them up"). Father goes upstairs to give the lad a spanking. "It was on the second-floor landing," the tale concludes, "that they found the shoe, with the man's foot still in it, like that last morsel of a mouse which sometimes falls unnoticed from the side of the jaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spook Department | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...which problems the Corporation has unfortunately made its own. Certainly Harvard as a men's college did not "owe" the use of its facilities to Radcliffe, any more than Smith owes the use of its facilities to Amherst. Most certainly Harvard did not gain by swallowing such an indigestible morsel, for its is difficult to see how joint instruction has raised the standards of the College or improved the maturity or outlook of the student. Coeducation is with us as an unexplained reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe in the College | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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