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...please, Miss. I like your nose''- and two-line essays on moral subjects (e.g., "Nothing fails like Success"). They spoke English fluently, but after the manner (somewhat corrupted) of their 18th Century creator, Jonathan Swift. They would say: "He fell Victim to Intoxication, and dismounted from his Nag to seek the Safety of the Terra Firma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lilliput Land | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...from Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...earth did you take that old nag? Look at my coolie! There's a high stepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ricksha Men's Petition | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Calver can do is to nag his clients to eat hot lunches, watch their weight and have yearly checkups. The Navy recently made Dr. Calver a temporary rear admiral and his grateful patients have passed a bill forbidding the Navy to transfer him without consent of the Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hypertense Legislators | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...evening of dancing. The price will be as low as possible. Transportation will be taken care of by the committee. Speaking of Logistics, Don Brown, of "Weasel" fame, is planning to make up a coterie of horses and wagons to carry all who might like to follow the plodding nag. But more of that later. So, look around for possible date--as if you could...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/26/1944 | See Source »

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