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...large cast, including a "terribly brainy" penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stars on Strings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Dick Harlow had been siting on the varsity bench Saturday afternoon, he would have laid an ostrich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Many Can We Score? Is New Football Criterion | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...edition of Shakespeare, the drawing illustrates ... one of Jack Cade's last boisterous speeches in Henry VI, Part II: ". . . I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Ostrich & the Horseshoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...wouldn't be seen dead in a genealogy room, but you may want to check whether or not this 15th Century illumination (see cut, left) is the same device used in the Wallace coat of arms which you describe as "an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe" [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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