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...Toad ever put pen to paper, it was reluctantly, to scribble in the margin of a college textbook ("Hmmmmm" or "Sez who?" or "Ha!"), or to write a check. Over the years, Toad's handwriting atrophied, until it was almost illegible. Who cared? Sonatas of language, symphonies, flowed from the Smith-Corona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...sez his school is great...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Valenzuela Didn't Take a Vacation | 3/15/1972 | See Source »

There is little chance for any reform without a prosperous U.S. economy. Richard Nixon, a man who instinctively favors the traditional, long believed that the nation would find that prosperity and stability where it normally has in the past: the marketplaces of classic lais sez-faire economics. On the other hand, John Connally, the chief of Nixon's new economic world, puts his faith in facts. Says Connally: "Look, unemployment in California is high and yet it doesn't affect wage rates there." Gradually, pragmatist convinced traditionalist that, in Connally's words, "serious structural problems" had interfered with the marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Exploring the New Economic World | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...coined the phrase later attributed to the legendary Algoma prospector Old Sam Martin: "Any man who sez he's been et by a wolf is a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1968 | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...gets 800 letters a day. When it's time for a Soupy Sez blackboard two-liner ("Show me a country that has only pink automobiles . . . and I'll show you a pink carnation"), fans mumble the predictable lines along with him and then fall on their heads with delight. "It's some sort of a love thing," explains his manager, who calls himself Irving Manager. Soup's humor is epidemically catching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: The Simple Simon Pieman | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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