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Pace, W. A.; Parrott, L. M., Jr.; Peabody, J. G.; Peterkin, J. E.; Pettingell, W. H.; Pierce, J. B., Jr.; Pink, J. W., Jr.; Purdy, E. R. Pyle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HOUSE MEMBERS | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

...what good came of it at last?", Quoth little Peterkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blenheim for John L. Lewis | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Many a U.S. Peterkin wondered last week whether the 3? a ton had been worth such a costly battle. But with both sides agreeing to accept the Board's terms, and peace in soft coal assured until April 1943, Mediator William H. Davis ejaculated: "Thank God it is settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blenheim for John L. Lewis | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...three-generation story about the Kikuyu tribesmen of East Africa, written from the native point of view, it particularly delighted British reviewers by a mixture of sympathy and picturesqueness not unlike that in the novels of Julia Peterkin. In their primitive state (the subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Man's Burden | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Quoth little Peterkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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