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...POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS-T. S. Eliot-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat Book | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Miller of Corpus Christi, a well-paid lobbyist for Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. Roy Miller was of course the principal speaker at Red River's send-off last week. Perched on the rear stoop of the weather-blackened Garner shanty, he addressed the gathering of country folk from Possum Trot and Coon-Soup Hollow and assembled cameramen-anticipating most of the obvious objections to Garner-for-President: that he is too old (70 now; 72 by inauguration day in 1941) ; that he is reactionary by New Deal standards, that he is knifing Franklin Roosevelt or Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Out for Deer | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished a Georgia farm family by rebuilding its shack, whitewashing the walls, cutting new windows, building a porch. At dusk they had enough energy left to chase across the Georgia hills hunting 'possum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Economic Truths | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...with reference to this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately stationed in North China under rights clearly recognized by treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Reactions to Roosevelt | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Governor Townsend's airedale, an excitable and ambitious dog, chased a 'possum into a corn field and up an apple tree. Undaunted, the airedale jumped up to a crotch in the tree, followed the 'possum out on a limb and leaped to the ground after the 'possum. A little out of wind, the dog scrambled up, chased the 'possum, caught him and brought him back to the Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

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