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...mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins her to wife. The cream of the jest is that he enlists Arnolphe as a coconspirator, and that wariest of foxes helps to outfox himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Laughing Cure | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Weaving in from different headings and altitudes to outfox the ground gunners, the attacking jets approached at medium height, climbed abruptly, then dive-bombed their targets, plunging through sheets of bullets and shrapnel. "As we approached, I knew we had a go," said Hopkins. "The weather was beautiful, but the sky was filled with automatic-weapons fire and flak. I laid my bombs down the center of the area occupying the storage buildings and pump houses." Hopkins' co-leader, Major James H. Kasler, 40, of Indianapolis, recalls: "The whole place was going up. Every bomb that went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Ripping the Sanctuary | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...have voted with you." Last month, when labor-reform legislation was at bitter issue in the House, Ike went on radio and television to urge a strong bill. He immensely enjoyed going over the drafts of his speech, and he took special pleasure in trying to outfox the Democratic opposition: he deliberately inserted a statement that, since he was barred from seeking reelection, he could only be speaking in the public interest. Behind that statement was the idea of foreclosing to the opposition the free and equal network time required for answering political speeches. It was in this same spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Is What I Want to Do | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor Thomas B. Stanley and other Byrd oligarchs settled on State Senator Garland Gray as this year's organization candidate for governor. Almond announced anyway, traveled doggedly from county seat to county seat to outfox Gray by getting the support of the courthouse workers, who are the wellspring of Byrd power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Low-Flying Byrd | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...where he was born 2,000 years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl, how to outfox a jealous husband or mistress, how to brazen out an infidelity (lie about it). It also offers a whole dictionary of lovers' lore, from aphrodisiacs ("Others say pepper is good") to proper grooming ("Let your toga fit well, never a spot on its white"). Translator Humphries, who has also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latin Without Tears | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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