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How about a bit of pidgin English? Sometimes it is very expressive, as you well know. When in Yunnan recently, I asked a Chinese what he thought of things generally in the world. Being a businessman rather than a scholar or an official and having come from South China he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1940 | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Young Bob, with the poise and savvy of a seasoned oldtimer, had succeeded in pitching a no-hit, no-run game (1-to-0)-a feat that had not been accomplished in a big-league park since 1938 and had never before in the history of major-league baseball been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Posers | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

The Streets of Paris is a thoroughly agreeable, if never remarkable, revue, made to order for hot weather visitors. Although it is about as Parisian as a hot-dog stand, it makes the grade by continuous liveliness, Broadway showmanship and savvy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Really cannot savvy how those three so-called Americans who gave lip service to their 100% credo, in TIME, June 13, can get so irrational, illogical and ill-at-ease about your publishing Earl Browder's picture on your front cover [TIME, May 30].

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Generals Without Buttons (Forrester-Parant), a French film, has all the suave savvy of the French. Its Gallic point: that the things boys do are no more absurd than the things men do, especially in love & war. With the polished simplicity of a parable, the frugal neatness of good homespun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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