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...Questions? In Detroit, John H. Franklin explained to the court how his wife got her black eye: "She was frying chicken. The heat made the chicken muscles quiver and it kicked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...cupid! Cast away your bow and quiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: O God! O Kinsey! | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Brensham, all the thieves and poachers are lovable rogues, all the women quiver with massive bursts of laughter, all the intellectuals are wise, all the drunkards poetic. Natural eccentricity and tolerance leave no place for nasty gossip and nagging. The vicar keeps live bait in the church font and nesting-boxes over the porch ("My dear fellows," says he to his wardens, "can you think of anything less sacrilegious than a pair of spotted flycatchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author in Wonderland | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...listen: I enjoy baseball, love to see the Red Sox play. I go out on a warm June afternoon to see Williams slug away, and what inevitably happens? There are men on second and third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill of pleasure that makes me quiver to think that I can predict a play is not enough to offset the tragic disappointment when the great Ted has to drop his bat and sidle to first. It is the great flaw in the American psyche. And how would you like to be the guy (poor bastard) who they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Spirit. At first the answer seemed to be yes. Outgoing President Robert R. Wason cried that the big trouble was that a "collectivist government" had sold out to labor. In quaking anger, Bob Wason shouted: "The President lets the public freeze while his guts quiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Down the Middle | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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