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...Stalin: "You remember, little Adolf had followed the White von Ribbit into a hole. . . . He cried and cried, till there was a big pool of water, and he got so tiny that he fell in with a splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...back seat while BBC took off its kid gloves, permitted anti-German cracks, digs at British home policy. Comic Tommy Handley twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing and Mr. Nasty | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Lowell, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, and Loverett continue to clothe their waitresses in black. Miss Murray, perennial guardian of the Union's gates, has also refused to allow herself to be swept away by a splash of color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAITRESSES IN THREE HALLS ADOPT VOGUE-LIKE UNIFORMS | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

...just abaft amidships on the port side. Then, said Mr. Cudahy, she "was struck again, wrecking the engine room, by a projectile projected through the air." Mr. Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine conning tower [unmarked] broke surface about 800 yards on the port quarter. ... A gun or explosive signal was fired. . . . The smoke from this discharge blew down over the Athenia and a distinct smell of cordite was recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Angry Athenians | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...President's favorite publicity medium is. From one of the sturdiest planks in George Washington's parting platform ("In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion be enlightened") the President dived overboard with his biggest splash for radio. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Canned Rposevelt | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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