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...clever Tom Clinch, while the rabble was bawling, Rode stately through Holborn to die at his calling, He stopt at the George for a bottle of sack, And promis'd to pay for it when he came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chronicles of Crime | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been on many a plain citizen's mind. How was it in that long judicial wig, in the summer? The Lord Chancellor's reply for history: "Very uncomfortable." And ditto for the sack of wool which tradition makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...willy-nilly, among her eager little friends, embarrassed by her embittered swain (Johnny Sands), and teased at every turn by Miss Loy's insufferably smug lover, Rudy Vallee. Worse still, of course, he falls for the judge. Good fun: Grant and Vallee competing grimly before their ladyloves in sack races, three-legged races and such other corruptions of sport as picnics are apt to inspire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...base of the Shantung peninsula, the Government had even more regulars than in Manchuria. One great task was reopening the Tientsin-Nanking railroad. Yet, in the Shantung campaign, chasing Communists was like punching a sack of rice. The fist sank in, but the Communists bulged back instead of breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: All-Out | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Happiness is now within the reach of everyone-everyone, that is, who wants to be a dope. In the British Medical Journal, a distinguished British psychiatrist named G. Tayleur Stockings announced that one capsule of pyrahexyl, a synthetic marijuana-like drug, taken each morning, would make the saddest sack happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Happiness Pills | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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