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Ernest I. Sly, venerable broom pusher over the Massachusetts Avenue cobbles, was heard to mutter that perhaps the honor of having the bridge named after alma mater might encourage Techmen to keep it clean. "Five minutes a day will keep the cobbles clean," he remarked sagely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Techmen Want to Rechristen Their Harvard Bridge; Cambridge Solon Wonders if M.I.T. Is Here to Stay | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...Defiley silence answered him. The Sage began to mutter to himself. "So Holy Cross is going to win, is it?," he said with a Glynnt in his eye. Why, that DaGrossast He I ever heard. It's perfectly Cleo to me what will happen. It'll be a fight to the Flynnish, but the score will be: Harvard 14 Holy Cross...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: "We'll Double Cross Them" | 10/26/1946 | See Source »

...stage as they piped marches and piobaireachds, a kind of wailing dirge which sounds like the cries of caged animals. Said Archibald Campbell: "We purists are passionately devoted to the piobaireachd." When the last piper had piped, one of the judges complained of a cramp and was heard to mutter: "Och, it's a terrible long business, terrible long." Another admitted to "a little pressure around the temples." The judges sadly agreed that the war years had not improved the quality of the pipers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Postwar Piobaireachd | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...scene-stealing, but not once does she come off second best. The attitude of her more experienced fellow workers has probably been best expressed by Veteran Barrymore. After a short rehearsal one day with Actress O'Brien. 'Barrymore, a notorious scene grabber himself, was heard to mutter : "Two hundred years ago, they'd have burnt her as a witch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Actually, Britons, temperamentally incapable of becoming totalitarian robots, were not taking and would not take much downtreading from socialists or anybody else. Some might mutter that Morrison wanted to be a policeman "like his father." But Morrison knows his Britain; he put up a sign in London classrooms expressing a most anti-authoritarian sentiment: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dull Year of Hope | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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