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...middle. She's got big feet and her hair starts from her head and goes out like the Japanese rising sun. The same color, too. I don't do anything, I just stand there and look. If she'd had on glasses I'd have hollered. And then I slunk out quiet-like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

...batch of lions-keeping their heads and shoulders low to avoid cuffs from the others. Crack, Crack! Crack ! The whiplash exploded like a bunch of firecrackers until all the animals were pedestaled-25 lions and lionesses, 15 tigers and tigresses. A tiger with ominously writhing tail left its post, slunk toward the small figure in white. Beatty put his head down almost to the sawdust, pretended to be staring the animal into submission. Actually he was giving invisible "cues." The tiger bellied down, backed slowly away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Cat Man | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Away from London last week slunk snubbed Emperor Haile Selassie (see p. 18), but glad British hands were extended by King Edward and many another in London to His Highness Sheik Sir Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, ruler of the Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Oily Sheik | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...hours the Italian advance was held up, then, well satisfied, the Ethiopians slunk further back into their mountains to try again. Belatedly the Italian flag went up on the ruins of empty Aduwa. First troops into the town were the 84th Infantry of the Gaviana division, who received the honor of leading the assault because they were the first troops to be sent to East Africa. With them they carried a strange piece of equipment, a fragment of a Roman column, brought all the way from Italy to be propped up in the market square of Aduwa in memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Solemn Hours | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...satisfaction, that you have rendered a blow against law enforcement and given aid and encouragement to the people who would flout the law. In all probability they will commend you. I cannot. The clerk will give you your vouchers." Like suck-egg dogs, the jurors slunk out of the room, their eyes on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Judge on Jury | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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