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...begins in England when war with Germany was only a weekly scare and not an hourly terror. It shows war overtaking children. The snout-nosed gas mask appears. For infants too small for the mask, there is the gasproof container. There are shots of a terrified baby being forced into a container, staring through its big glass pane in panic as he is sealed in. In their back yards people construct flimsy-looking air-raid shelters, decorate them with potted plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled. Driver Poulter cheerfully estimated that it would take several days to get the monster rolling again, looked forward to the vast stretches of the Antarctic snow fields, where there would be plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreadnaught Ditched | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...some of them must have wondered if Director Frank Caprahad been reading late great Secretary of State John Hay's outburst to Henry Adams: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...phosphorus and cheese (any sharp cheese would suffice). The light from the phosphorus and the tantalizing odor accompanying it would invariably attract any whifflepoofs lingering beneath us. We hovered over the hole, with rubber bands stretched out in our fingers. As soon as a whifflepoof would thrust his inquiring snout through the hole, we would quickly snare him with a rubber band, encircling his gills with it. He would soon choke, and we were then able to draw him up through the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...sailor. When his ship docked at a port in tropical Sumatra about a month ago, he went ashore like a tidal wave. Next day, having managed to get back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back to the U. S., Pandora went with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pandora | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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