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...overall effect of this production is a sheer joy. Should any one tell you otherwise, just reply, "Pishery-pashery! Go snick up, you gibble-gabbling trullibubs!" and hie to Wellesley on a Schulmacher's holiday for this triple-Dekker treat...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Shoemaker's Holiday | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

...emperor's true son and heir? The baron will find out-or will he? Boinnng! A knife sprouts in a post beside his head. Swish! Thirty assassins, black-robed like torturers in medieval Europe, jump out of the rhododendrons at him. Snick-snack! The baron, an ineffable swordsman, puts them easily to flight. But alas, the rogues make off with the Lady Kikuji (Keiko Kishi), the baron's sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same thing, except that the jailer's whip is made of bamboo). In brief, Director Tatsuo Osone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

unselfish devotion." Root of Evil. In his letter of resigna tion, Harold Smith took a parting snick at the root of a Government evil: too little money for able men. Wrote he: "It would have been only a short time until existing limitations on the salaries of public officials would have forced me out. ... I could not have continued without reducing certain fixed charges which I have regarded for many years as important to the security of my family." For about 15 years, Kansas-born Harold Smith had researched and taught the science of government, had served in local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Mr. Smith's Budget | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...exact duplicates of Times Wirephotos of deaths & disasters. So when Times Photographer George Strock showed up at the hospital week before last to snap pictures of Fitts as he was wheeled into the operating room, he noted with interest that none of the Examiners 16 photographers was on hand. Snick! went the shutter of Photographer Strock's camera and away he ran with a shot of the wounded District Attorney on a stretcher, a half-smoked cigaret in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Cat-Trap | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...sabers which, according to the dispatches, will be drawn in threatening swordplay between two high officials of the Polish government. Were the custom to be followed in the United States, duels, lineally descended from the Burr-Hamilton affair of the early Republic, would settle insurgent politics. A single snick of a rapier in the dawn might prove an effective cloture rule for Senate debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POISONED CUP | 6/10/1926 | See Source »

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