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...Three carloads of drugged, glassy-eyed, wild-haired teenage girls lurch along dirt roads, frenetic music stimulating them like an electric cattle prod into disjointed spasms. Snaporaz eventually flees, panicked, into the pleasure palace of Dr. Xavier Zuberkock, an aging Bacchanalian who calls to mind the incoherent but dynamic Mynheer Peeperkorn of Mann's Magic Mountain...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: Urban Cowboy | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

...good. I loved to see Peter's strong teeth clamping down over them, demolishing them; I felt demolished too, and would order more. "Garcon," I would say to the diseased French girl who presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped in for pear-filled fumates, bringing with them...

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...Mynheer von Stoendyck, a Belgian inventor whose perfect command of the English language is simply not credited by his British hostess. She helpfully translates everything that is said to him into broken English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Edwardian Laughter | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...pulled to a stop, a German in civilian clothes stepped out of the cafe and made a mysterious signal. At once a gang of civilians rushed across the border from Germany, firing wild shots (one of which killed Mynheer Klop). The civilians bundled their captives into another car, and drove across the border. Secret Agents Stevens and Best were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Almost alone in preferring gold to paper as pocket currency for everyday use are Dutchmen. They like to jingle heavy guilders on each of which is stamped the motto & promise of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House: "I will maintain!" In The Hague last week pompous Mynheer Doktor Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, President of the Netherlands Bank, mentioned an obvious fact: no "run" to exchange Dutch paper money for gold can possibly perturb the Netherlands Bank. Reason: the entire paper currency of the Netherlands is backed by a gold cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: World Metal | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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