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...precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had often seen before. When they perused the caption, Charles Evans Hughes' prize-winning Schnauzer, with Miss Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well as an impudent coincidence that the dog 'should bear so exact a facial resemblance to his master. Yet there it was, the calm, thoughtful visage, the long, sagacious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Schnauzer, Hughes | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Julie. "Thees Pierre, 'e iz one dam fine bootlaig, mais nevaire, nevaire will I make ze marriage wiz him" is the type of dialogue that drove many of the audience home at the end of Act II. Some remained to snicker at tense moments. The plot involves a drunken Canuck mother who sells her daughter, Julie, to a bootlegger for two cases of Scotch. There is also the stalwart Yankee youth who saves the girl over the disapproval of his tight little mother, and a bady who did not belong to Julie after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...some of the Kahns were almost as old as he, 47; and, besides, no one had ever really loved him, for all his fat. The familial relationship was purely commercial, his particular job being to sit with his front spread over his lap as bumpkins paused to wonder and snicker. Once he noted a youngish couple squeeze an impertinent witticism through their clasped fingers. He was sad for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apron | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Most humanitarians have a flair for pioneering. Conductor Damrosch brought Wagner into U. S. favor at a time when the fashion was to snicker at the German. He, first, played the greatest Symphony since Beethoven, the Tschaikowsky "Pathetique." He sponsored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out Among the People | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...candles in the smoke-blanketed carbon black area of the Louisiana gas field. And the "wet" gas furnishes carload after carload of gasoline before it is used in the burning houses. To me it is an interesting industry. I was rather offended when you dismissed it with a snicker-"shoe-polish." You might almost as well call the packing industry the "pigsfeet people"-the farmers of the world "manure spreaders." This is a carping letter, although I did not intend it so. Pride injured by an error of omission prompted it. Perhaps sometime in the near future you will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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