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From the truck a greasy hubcap was unscrewed, clapped down on his head. "That's his crown!" crowed some youngster. Oily slime ran down the judge's face. His tormentors threw dirt at him which stuck to the grease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: At Le Mars | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they will reach from the pearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...published. Lawrence to Murry: "You remember saying, T love you, Lorenzo, but I won't promise not to betray you?' W7ell, you can't betray me, and that's all there is to that. Ergo, just leave off loving me. Let's wipe off all that Judas-Jesus slime. Remember, you have betrayed everything and everybody up to now." Critics may dig long before they strike a better summation of Lawrence than one he gives himself: "And my Cockneyism and commonness are only when the deep feeling doesn't find its way out, and a sort of jeer comes instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leif the Lucky to Lincoln | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...bills of exchange grew promissory notes and paper money, which is a government's promise to pay on demand. Italian lawyers last week adduced tradition & history for their opinion that Hyderabad might not legally repudiate the millions in paper rupees which the Artiglio IPs crew carefully cleared of sea slime and dried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fortune from Neptune | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Because they usually bring home more than their share of trophies, the Marines are called "pot-hunters." Accustomed to Central American rain and slime, they did not seem to mind the early bad weather, won more cups than any other unit. Equally acclimatized to tropic sun glare, they won the team match for the second consecutive year, for the eleventh time. The only branch that consistently gives the Marines a run for their money is the Infantry, which still holds the match record of 2,838 out of a possible 3,000, established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pot Shots at Perry | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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