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...Look at Their flag!" Sporting jasmine garlands and his inevitable red rosebud, Nehru stumped Travancore for six days on foot, by Cadillac and in motor launches, making 25 speeches a day. He met fishermen in thatched huts, cardamom pickers in the spice groves, farmers in their rice fields. Altogether he drew 3,000,000 to his scheduled Congess Party meetings. Everywhere he kept up a bitter tirade against India's Communists. "Look at their flag!" he cried. "They have copied the Russian flag. Very extraordinary . . . My mind fails to grasp why that flag should be imported into India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Straight Fight | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...food. Grim marches accompany the centipede as he hunts for his luncheon, and a horn tootles mysteriously while a red and black striped burrowing snake wriggles his body in the sand. But Disney's humor comes out in the music as well. Square dance music and hilarious narration spice a scorpion courtship...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: The Living Desert | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Anonymous poets nowadays spice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some New Nonsense With Same Old Lear | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

...that did not prevent the Irish from going into a round of heady politicking. Although 21 of the seats were uncontested, the Unionists had to contest their claim to the other 31 seats against no less than nine opposition parties. In some constituencies, just to add spice to the occasion, Unionists were even standing against Unionists. The Unionists captured at least 35 of the 52 seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Horses, Not Heads | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Since the plot idea is, among other things, remarkably wholesome, Taylor felt called upon to spice it for Broadway. The ugly head of sex does not rear, it is dragged in by the playwright with gusto. Obvious burlesque material does not buoy a sinking script, however, it merely brings the level down a little further...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Sabrina Fair | 10/16/1953 | See Source »

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