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...Soufile" a great deal more than those who don't. Many of the scenes depicted contain caricatures of actual performers. Jan Peerce, in consume as the Duke of Mantua, struts through the seven pages devoted to "Rigoletto," while Leonard Warren, in the role of the jester, glowers at two spear carriers in the malediction scene. The caricatures are bold and simple, and they very seldom miss their mark...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxo, | Title: At the Met | 12/1/1950 | See Source »

...anti-Taft forces could have wished for a spear with a little more point. "Jumping" Joe Ferguson is a bouncing, bespectacled little man who looks like Joe E. Brown, habitually has trouble with the English language. But for better or for worse, the anti-Taft forces were stuck with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Mr. Republican v. Mr. Nobody | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Spear & Tea. "Then a few minutes later there was a roar. One of the warriors wanted to spear a father whose son was enrolled in our school. In a few moments the spear was wrested out of the hands of the attacker. Again everything became quiet and everyone, including the attacker, went to eat and drink tea. Until late in the night Christians and pagans ate, drank tea and sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Loaded My Shotgun | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...know that we speared a government official two years ago at Narok?' 'Yes, I know it.' 'Are you aware that we could spear your people even today?' 'Yes, I know it and I expected a spear between my ribs yesterday, especially when I was baptizing your young men.' 'What would you have done in such a case?' 'During the service I would have done nothing and would have forgiven those who had speared me.' 'Hm, hm, but afterwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Loaded My Shotgun | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...Spear Carrier." Thus the new Merry-Go-Round brushes Harry Truman off as little more than "a spear carrier from the mob scene," and deplores his "government by crony." Yet the G.O.P., say Allen & Shannon, is worse-a "Dark Age Brigade" full of "Piltdown men" and "mental Charley horses" with "intellectual constipation, verbal diarrhea and varicose egotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Round & Round She Goes | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

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