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...Boston Library did not hang some of its more raffish Rowlandson items. But the show contained such characteristic works as At Close Range, a deft landscape containing a stray huntsman spying on a lover's embrace, and the farcical Pig in a Poke, in which a juicy porker tries to escape pursuing humanity through the heavy legs of an equally porcine woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ribald Rowly | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...hapless Freshman is here again. This time he's beleaguered by barbers. This small talk in pig-Italian is too much for the youngsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isa You Wanna da Herkutt? Justa You Comma Here, Son | 9/3/1943 | See Source »

Solid Proposition. In Sedro-Woolley, Wash., J. E. Minster advertised in the Courier-Times: "FOR SALE-George, our pig. . . . Don't know what he weighs, but I can only lift one end of him at a time. . . . He sits down to meals. By mistake he has been fed laying mash and commercial fertilizer and once Portland cement. All seem to agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...This pig-faced idol of 30,000 trusting Alaouites is sated with life's delights. Huge rolls of fat clutter his chin, hump his neck, swirl around his middle. He has beady, sweaty brown eyes, but, by a quirk of nature, they are spaced nicely apart, giving him an off-center approach to humanness. He lacks all the usual Arab graces, makes up for them in a futile, ostentatious show of wealth. He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God into Deputy | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Paint brushes (it lasts three times as long as pig bristles). Du Pont believes that nylon will be standard in tooth and hair brushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nylon for Everything | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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