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...auto solidifies in prestige, pomp and circumstance seep into the drawings (not to mention the ad copy). But there is an image of 1912 evening pleasure, with its silky escort, its four moth-white, moth-soft ladies enwombed in the felicities of a cross-sectioned Waverly Electric, in a rain-dim street, which catches a sort of elegant U.S. ecstasy that few conscious artists have caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Get a Horse | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

After a slow start caused by Jupiter Pluvius, the NSCS Baseball season is now well into its second week. Even the old men on the faculty have taken their muscles out of the moth balls and are making an appearance on the diamond behind Cowie. Following are the results of games which have been played and the scores of which have been turned in to Lieutenant Montgomery: 10 over Easy, 5-3; War Adjustment on top of E, 6-3; item over Faculty, 10-3; K above J, 4-2; and Easy over D, 17-4. Complete standings, however, cannot...

Author: By Mldn E. T. long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 5/5/1944 | See Source »

...west are Spanish Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sullen, hungry, heartsick land of Spain, where the corpulent Caudillo Franco balances sympathy against expediency, and ponders how he can best save his moth-eaten skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Defender of Empire | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...remember a bricklayer who never spoke more than two words. One was "bricks," the other "mortar." Once after a long layoff he fell down a well. When he hollered "Help!" a moth flew out of his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1943 | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Said meek Governor Arnall, after Franklin Roosevelt's visit: "I don't subscribe to this moth-eaten doctrine of states' rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juggernaut South | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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