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...friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Musical Chairs. The result pleased almost nobody. The Times described the Cabinet shuffle as a game of puss-in-the-corner. The Spectator labeled it "The Cabinet Stirabout." Coming closer to the right figure, the Daily Herald compared it to the Mad Hatter's tea party: "The leading figures move solemnly from one chair to another and the public, like Alice, looks on bewildered." In effect, Mr. Chamberlain had invited his Cabinet to get up and march around the room while he stood one chair in the corner. When they sat down again, six had new chairs, there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Shuffle | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Miami's Hialeah Park and Tropical Park, winter visitors, converging from all over the country, took to the cute little Puss-in-boots as movie fans took to Shirley Temple a few years ago. Oldtimers as well as race-going recruits ignored form charts, played Flinchum regardless of his mount. Booting home winner after winner, against top-notchers like Eddie Arcaro and Don Meade. he was the sensation of the Florida racing season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Boy Jockey | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...nonfictional offspring Freeman, proved that not even a hurricane can stop him from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down East | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Purred back appeased Appeaser Lord Londonderry, longtime friend of Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop: "[I wish Mr. Churchill] were a member of the Government this moment." With a scrape heard round the world the Conservatives thus made Puss Churchill a path to a place by the fire, and politicos with second sight could already see Winston Churchill snuggled into a reorganized Chamberlain Cabinet, probably as First Lord of the Admiralty, the post he filled brilliantly during the World War. In any case, with this great reconciliation a united Conservative Party could brave not only the perils of German aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Kind Words | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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