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Something new has been added. That is the seasoned opinion of a man who has taken every opportunity to sip tea and wander through receiving lines since that terrifying day at the beginning of his Freshman year when he wandered into Phillips Brooks House with a little tag on his coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Displays Newest Talent At Annual PBH Tea | 10/7/1942 | See Source »

...climax of joy is not when you're through a new symphony, but when you are hoarse from shouting, with your hands stinging from clapping, your lips parched, and you sip your second glass of beer after you've fought for it with 90,000 other spectators to celebrate the victory of your favorite team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich & the Guns | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...sank 13 ships, five of them in one day in waters where Gough's boats had been operating. At approximately the same time, sabotage of the intelligence officer's plane was discovered. His room was ransacked and a bottle of whiskey in it was poisoned. The first sip of a drink poured out for his British colleague left the Briton paralyzed from the hips down for 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: The Case of Captain Gough | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Edward Arnold is hearty and his usual vigorous self as "Black Daniel" Webster, who would rather pitch horse-shoes and sip New Bedford ale than bother with politics. His climactic speech to the jury of despised Americans, far longer than the length of speeches movie audiences are generally supposed to go for, is a beautifully expressive bit of sustained emotion...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...named Martin Lefcort, decided that it would be a good idea to have a Frenchman plug his California wines. The notion was developed by Chateau Martin's advertising agent, Herman C. Morris, whose outfit whipped together a series of chats by a comic Frenchman, who, after a sip of Chateau Martin '39, uniformly wound up: "I go queek get my citizenship papers." This folderol, tried over a few stations, was so successful that Chateau Martin upped its spot announcement budget from $100 to $3,500 a week, introduced the imperishable jingles with which Gaston now assaults the ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gaston, the Patriot | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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