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With three days practice to remove the effects of holiday indulgences, House League basketball teams will start play Friday for a short ten days before exams. This is a mere spit-in-the-bucket, token operation; the major part of the season always comes in February, after exams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Basketball Comes Back for Ten Days Friday | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

...into this hand, so unmistakably the limp and clammy hand of an effeminate curate, that little boys were to put theirs trustingly .. . This was the pietistic poseur-the very spit of every disgusting little 'teacher's pet' . . . that we were to take as the earthly evidence of what The Everlasting God is like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not Frail, Not Pale | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...third summons arrived August 4. This time we went to Interior's Passport Section. As my protectors and I arrived at the office of a Captain Sabry, one of them said: 'I was spit on only once climbing the stairs ; I guess that's par for the course.' With a face-cracking smile the captain demanded my passport, flipped through it and said: 'Your residence visa has expired.' I pointed out that it had just been renewed. Said he : 'I am cancelling it. You will get a temporary visa. You will leave Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Marvin and Obadiah Leonard were a couple of Texas farm boys when they came to Fort Worth in 1918, bought a general store and settled down. They knew how to make customers feel at home. Said Marvin: "If you see a man who wants to spit, walk in front of him and spit, so he'll see that it's the thing to do." Said Obadiah: "The customer pays our bills. We're going to be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something for Everybody | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...like flies, beginning with an unctuous colonel of dragoons (Arnold Moss), and ending with poor Don José (Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit, snarl, bite, slap, kick, dance, sing (in Spanish), pull a knife and, of course, exercise her deadlier blandishments. The film's limitations are largely those of its star, though it manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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