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...East Liverpool, Ohio, after he had been fined $50 and costs for blacking the eye of his estranged wife, Clarence Cobb complained to the judge: "She knew I was a coon hunter and a drinker before we were married, and she never said a word; afterward, it was just nag, nag, nag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Horse Dobbin yesterday. Dobbin, a mythical beast which figures prominently in McCurdy's course on contracts, became very real horse flesh behind Austin Hall during the 11 a.m. class break when two first-year students, Fred L. Atwood and Henfry B. Shepard, Jr., presented McCurdy with a hungry nag rented for the occasion. But the renter for the occasion. But the renter left his map of Cambridge in his other pants, and the rentees very nearly had a horse as mythical as McCurdy's. Two hundred waiting law students can't be wrong, however, and driver found, Harvard and Dobin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCurdy and Horse Dobbin Meet; Mythical Animal Makes Brief Visit | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

Star of the German team was Hans Guenther Winkler, a 28-year-old aspirin salesman from Warendorf, who was mounted on Halla, a brown, nine-year-old mare that he had picked up as "a worthless nag" 2½ years ago and trained into a sensational jumper. Peering through his spectacles, he gave her a remarkably relaxed ride, took her easily over the first five jumps. On the sixth and toughest jump-a 5-ft.-high and 5-ft.-wide "double oxer"-the mare's hind hoofs, desperately straining upwards, did not quite clear the white bar and sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deutschland iiber Jumps | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

works on salesmen's wives to spur their husbands: the company keeps the wives closely informed about sales contests so that they can nag their husbands to greater efforts to win such prizes as a trip to Paris with the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: r-DEATH OF THE SALESMEN n: DEATH OF THE SALESMEN | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

They can easily avoid widowhood by 1) cremating themselves on their husband's funeral pyre; 2) contributing to the heart fund (in order to help cure the greatest destroyer of middle-aged males); 3) refusing to nag their husbands, or 40) marrying men younger than themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Should Marry Younger Men To Avoid Widowhood, Says Hooton | 3/18/1953 | See Source »

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