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...superficial cinema roles that have enveloped her-how sound an actress Alice Brady is, her warming, plainspoken, broguish portrayal of the Widow O'Leary was a revelation. By long odds the most convincing performer in In Old Chicago, she makes handsome Tyrone Power seem something of a pip-squeak as Chicago's boss, reduces the whole caboodle of headlined stars to the ranks of supporting players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Kingdom and, of course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds were largely bought just before the rise by British speculators, whose keen sense of values soon enabled them to make a greater killing in Newfoundlands in 1933 than in this year's rather pip-squeak Budget leak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Jimmy's Paradox | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...takes the "t" out of can't and the "i" out of pip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lifer Hoover | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...Pip is something that sends shivers down the back and saps all the energy in the body. Did you ever see a hen with pip? Her wings are drooped, her feathers ruffled, her head hangs down . . . her cackle is gone, her eyes are watery. . . . She is sick all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lifer Hoover | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Have you PEP or the PIP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lifer Hoover | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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