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...plucking," but the Vagabond heard not. Somewhere in the vague hinterland beyond the anti-macasser and the cupped ear was a rocking chair. The distance, he remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond had faint reminiscences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

Died, Bangwan, 35, tribal chief of the saucer-lipped Ubangi; of Bright's disease; in Sarasota, Fla. A six-foot, tattooed warrior from the French Congo, Chief Bangwan drooped in his U. S. life of enforced ease. He left seven saucer-lipped relicts, three of them in John Ringling's Circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 2, 1932 | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...France, cafe accounting is done by the printed prices of drinks on the saucers in which the drinks are served. The sum total of his saucer pile is the imbiber's bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rayograms | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure, not yours.'' He made the same servant drink a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port & brandy; made him crawl on the floor like a dog, bark, eat out of a saucer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...there, lobbied a little. In the November election he will be opposed by Republican Senator William Bliss Pine who was politically handicapped this year when an enormous gusher came in on his Oklahoma land, made him suddenly rich. Nominee Murray, who boasts of drinking his coffee from the saucer, rarely bathes, and who said he would rent the executive mansion and live in the garage, was immediately threatened with impeachment if elected over Republican Nominee Ira A. Hill. Declared "Alfalfa Bill:" "So be it. I am a candidate for impeachment, but it'll be like a bunch of rabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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