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...five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

Tommy was playing on the lawn. "That's my Ronnie," cried Anna Thompson. She was positive, and prepared to prove it. "My Ronnie had webbed toes," she said. An attendant removed a shoe and sock; the toes of Tommy's right foot were webbed. She smiled triumphantly. "The other was the same!" she said, and, sure enough, the toes on Tommy's left foot also were webbed. Tommy had blue eyes, and his ears lay flat, like Ronnie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Long Search | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

American with big feet and a hole in his sock squatting on the floor and putting boyish questions to the tiny, tired Mahatma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the Grail | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...eight days). Missionary Salau (rhymes with allow) is a feature writer's dream. His father was a headhunter, he wears odd clothes, he obligingly describes the wonders of Western civilization in pidgin English. Said he of an elevator ride: "Time me go inside one fella room. Missus he sock 'im one fella button. This bockis him get up. Belly belong me like come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pidgin Belong You | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...chilly street corner in London's threadbare Hammersmith, a Tory soapboxer looked out over the crowd of housewives, clerks and workingmen. "What's left in your wage packet after this government has taken its share of taxes and national insurance?" he shouted. "Aw, stuff a sock in it!" yelled a heckler in the crowd and promptly launched into a speech of his own. He had spent six'weeks in a hospital, his wife had a baby, his mother got spectacles and new dentures, his brother got a long-needed truss, and "all under this Labor government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Doctors' Bill | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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