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...Yeah, I've been Coughlin all week, but it doesn't MacKinney difference if I have a short snort." Huey gulped his drink. "Say, this Israel stuff. I feel like I've been Stark with a pin. I guess I won't be Sheehan much of the game with this stuff in my Lohr egions. We'd better not Delaney longer, or I won't be able to Pilate myself to the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN OVER BROWN 14 to 7, PICKLED BY SAGE OF AGE | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

Author of these Memphis blues was Ed Crump's new Police and Fire Commissioner Joe Boyle. Joe Boyle is pious, thorough, as independent as a hog on Mr. Crump's ice can be. "Boyle on the neck," his policemen call him. "Holy Joe." under-worldlings snort. "We are just enforcing the law," snaps Joe Boyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Memphis Blues | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...catch-phrases as "this amazing little island"; to deliver such debatable statements as "Few countries can boast as high a type of manhood as that produced by the public schools of England"; to remark, "The septuagenarian Neville Chamberlain is symbolic of the virility of the English people"; and to snort "To say that war exhausts is as much nonsense as that exercise weakens." After his long persuasions that night must fall, such whistling in the dark makes the night seem darker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The British (Cont'd) | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Brontosaurus were to snort in Wall Street, it would sound no stranger than did a two-column ad in the Wall Street Journal, fortnight ago. "WANTED FAST! . . . One man with $15,000 cash money or two men with $7,500 cash money each. . . . AND FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE PLEASE HURRY. I am just getting ready to dig a 4,300-foot well in Ector County, West Texas . . . and ... I don't believe there is even any doubt but that we will have anywhere from 50 feet to 100 feet of oil saturation and make anywhere from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Innocent in Wall Street | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...buying wave could stop this decline, give the bulls something to snort about. But new buying depends on inventories waiting to be consumed. National Industrial Conference Board summary of 500 leading companies shows a 13% increase in value of inventories since Labor Day. Last week the ordinarily sluggish Bureau of Labor Statistics' price index (which jumped at the outset of the war boom) dropped from 79.1 to 78.8. This was evidence of the pressure of surpluses, suggested that inventories have become a problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bull Fever, Bear Facts | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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