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Campaigning with Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle in Allen- town, Democrat Jack Dempsey busily scribbled autographs, asked one eager moppet: "And don't you want the Governor's signature too?" Retorted the moppet: "Naw, I only want yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...before the 500-mi. Memorial Day automobile derby at Indianapolis Speedway, Driver Les Spangler of Los Angeles went out behind his garage to look at a mother rabbit and six bunnies he was raising. Someone asked him if he was grooming them for their lucky left hind feet. "Naw," he said, "I don't need any charms. I'm just naturally a lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indianapolis Derby | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back to the institution, prepared for transfer to the penitentiary. "Did Robert have a good word for me before he died?" asks plaintive Mrs. Sanger. "Naw!" says Red. "He died hatin' everybody like a man with any guts should." He hesitates, just before being taken away. "He did have a good word to say for you," hard-boiled Red finally admits. Albert Bein, author of this vital, brilliantly cast play, is no stranger to reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...Naw, hardly any undergraduates. They never get tried out, at least not from working. The Business and Law School fills this place. Sick? Not very often. Just run down, and if that isn't enough, they go out and catch a little cold, get a temperature, and then they're all set--peace, quiet, good service, good food. What price study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stillman Infirmary a Haven For Exhausted Students Who Need Rest--Few Exceptions Break Up Peacefulness, Study | 3/30/1933 | See Source »

...reason to know, has frequently the greatest hesitation in revealing the net of flesh and emotion and human relationship into which he was born and which conditioned his early efforts at living and too often his subsequent place in life and society. I am free to say here and naw that I am in no way troubled by any such thoughts or feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adolescent Pachyderm* | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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