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...right. Prodigious are their engineering feats in moving Gulliver from the coast to their diminutive capital, graceful is the King's effort to dance with Gulliver's finger for a partner. But the closest Gulliver's Travels comes to invention of Disney calibre are Sneak, Snoop and Snitch, King Bombo's secret agents, to whom he sends letters beginning: "Dear Spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Manhattan, another ex-G-Man, Tom Tracy, declared in the Daily News: "Because of our moral aloofness to the great international pastime of snoop-look-and-listen, America has become just one vast peek-easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Snoop, Look & Listen | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...official Rightist-conducted tour was arranged primarily for French correspondents but New York Timesman George Axelsson managed to get there first and snoop around on his own for four days, then spent three on the conducted tour. London's Laborite Daily Herald insisted the French correspondents were "duped" when they saw no Italian garrison, the Herald's Paris office continuing to see a garrison of 30,000. Mr. Axelsson in an uncensored dispatch to the Times agreed with the French correspondents that there is no Italian garrison but an Italian and German aviation personnel of 500 and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Progress | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...business of designing women's clothes is a major French industry employing thousands of people, the opening of a spring collection at an important house is as hard to get into as the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. Tickets are most carefully issued, ticket-holders must be recognized, detectives snoop about behind the rather shoddy French chairs in the showrooms, ready to pounce on cameras or sketch pads, weapons of the style pirates. Two other facts are important: 1) Though the Rue de la Paix is firmly connected in the public mind with fashion houses, hardly any of the important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Spring Openings | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...believe that it was a political issue between the Governor and the President, and that the former manipulated the Regents into voting the ouster purely on grounds of differing political philosophy. Certainly if he did, he was misjudging his man when he agreed to have President Conant come out, snoop around, and say that he didn't. If that deal goes through he will be really investigated, and no mistake...

Author: By Whang Poo, | Title: Off Key | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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