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...fright the mules never got used to was the sight of an elephant. The fright was mutual. When elephant met mule there was pandemonium-trumpeting and braying, sometimes a hysterical stampede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Merrill's Mules | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...leave-and decided to stay. All police records of our district had been destroyed, so he was relatively safe in borrowed civilian clothes; most of the people on the street looked as though they were wearing borrowed clothes anyhow. But the house by this time had become a pandemonium of squabbling over food, bawling kids and raw nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: F | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Crown Is Mine." "Melpomene and Thalia have been surpassed," cried the Romantics when Dumas' play Henri III was first presented. Pandemonium broke loose. The audience "stood up, as if seized with madness." "The crown is mine," cried Dumas, and bought himself chromatic waistcoats and a pince-nez dangling from a black ribbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dumas Returns | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...difficulties in recording the actual sounds of battle were discussed last week by WOR-Mutual's Warcaster Dave Driscoll. He went to the Mediterranean with a portable recording outfit, intending to get the pandemonium of war on disks for rebroadcasting to the U.S. home front. But, said he last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Too Much to Lug | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Fighting furiously for the ball, the Indians began to close the margin; with 30 seconds left, fiery little Hyman Gotkin stole the ball from a Wyoming player, passed down the floor and amid the wildest pandemonium the Garden has ever seen, tied the score for St. John's just before the whistle blew. Big Boy Boykoff picked up Teammate Gotkin in his arms, ran shouting up & down the floor with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cowboys v. Indians | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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