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...nips him. Mickey claps himself into the teeth and turns on the lion which flees abjectly, its toothless mouth a parched wrinkle. Mickey pursuing, champs the teeth ferociously, suddenly gives out a lion-like roar. Mickey is a mouse but he acts like a man. He has a sack-like hound and a cat. They and the incidental animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with fantastic playfulness. A swarm of canary chicks will escape Mickey's cage, light in unison on a table. Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Profound Mouse | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...Russian goods and cut off from Russia some $130,000,000 a year of her best customer's trade. Every diplomat, every reporter in Moscow fought for a seat in that blue & white room and gazed eagerly at the tables covered with red cloth where sat three sack-suited judges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Priznayu | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...Hard work cast him like one of his bronzes into a chunky man with a bullet head and a military mustache. He joined the Social Register, Manhattan's Century and Coffee House Clubs. Earning some $60,000 a year, he lived in solid style. He worked in a sack suit and smock, talked little about the theory of art. Once a year he took out his restlessness in travel. His exhibitions were non-portable: a heroic statue of Lincoln at 21 before Fort Wayne's Lincoln National Insurance Co. building; an Indian hunter fountain in St. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lucky Manship | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

Peiping Next? Scared white lest Jehol's routed troops should pour down through the Great Wall and sack Peiping was "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Glorious 16th | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cocks & Cockers | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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