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Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Memory Lane | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Detach my blue brain. Give me drinking water. Look out for the 'mountains. Think of arsenic. Change the yellow ink. Remember last year. Remember the heat. We spit in the air and the nightingales spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Drop Everything, Drop Dado | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda, María Cristina, and Franco-posed for photographers and looked like a fine quiver-full for Papa. Their dresses and ribbons looked like the same they wore for their second-birthday picture last July. But María Fernanda now asserted herself -with a spit curl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King, enraged at his wife, wishes to hang her. But his friends counsel moderation: "Rather, build a chapel next to the church, and put your wife in it; whoever goes to Mass is to spit in her face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mouse & Moujik | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...trim cruisers and destroyers clear their throats and spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foxhole Fiction | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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