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...Corcoran so often that the Janizariat often wonders if there is a fresh spot left for the knife. What they all now think of Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy could not be printed, although not many months ago they spread rumors that Murphy was a saint in a sack suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Whispers in the White House | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...Paris, a French boxer just out of the Army battled ten roaring rounds to a draw. Purse: 100 francs ($1), 50 litres of red wine, a bouquet of violets, a sack of potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...green carpeted suite on the 14th floor sat Wendell Lewis Willkie, a tousle-haired Peter the Hermit in a rumpled sack suit, waiting for news of his crusade. He lounged in a big chair, his feet propped up on another, his coat gradually inching up his big back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Losers | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Most surgeons prefer to cut out the gall bladder with the stones because a sack, once diseased, usually becomes inflamed again. The operation is not difficult, and since the gall bladder is not an essential organ (horses have none), a patient need only follow a low-fat diet to stay healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking of Operations | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects a crown ("I must view with abhorrence"). Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby, whose sons had been killed in battle ("I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine. . . ."). Emerson hails Walt Whitman's Leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Other People's Mail | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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