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Blue butter, a'stutter, a'flutter, no mutter, no matter, no clatter, that picture, that stricture gives rise, not wisely but unwisely, to the crack, to the smack, fee-fi-io-flack, It's a nose, it's a Nose, it's a NOSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Prom those two magic words seem to carry with them a feeling of superiority; they smack of the elite. University of Colorado Proms are the most democratic in the country yet somehow even they stand out. Truly, the Prom is The One Event of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soundings | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

...least some undergraduates. No young man should go through college unburned. It does not make a great deal of difference what subject infects him first; he should be infected. He may then proceed on his own fuel. Once the taste of blood, always a hunter. Let a man once smack his lips on abnormal psychology and it will lead him to the end of his days on a hunt through all the cultural activities of man to find an answer to his questions. For abnormal psychology, since it deals with all extremes of human activity, the mind behaviour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...admirer of TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Sidney Johnston Catts, Democrat, used to be Governor of Florida (1916-20). Many a speech had he made in and near Florida's capital, Tallahassee. Last week he mounted a Tallahassee bandstand and began an anti-Smith speech. He touched upon Roman Catholicism. Whizzz-smack went an egg. Mr. Catts continued. Whizzz-smack went many eggs. Mr. Catts stopped talking. Irate, he left the bandstand, offered to fight any man in the crowd in single combat, offered a reward for the apprehension of his eggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Catts, Eggs | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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