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After seven dilatory months of hemming, hawing and worse words, the British Loan last week was finally passed by Congress. And it did not just squeak through; it passed the House 219-to-155) with surprising room to spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Touch System | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...want to take you on a little tour. . . ." But only a squeak came from the microphone. Sir Archibald shouted: "Can you hear me?" A thousand throats yelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Unfinished Tour | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...July 1944, I found myself gently eased out of Russia when the Soviets withdrew my press credentials after an argument with one of their more abusive censors. . . . Our own State Department, to whom the event had been fully reported, uttered not a squeak of protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...Young Ryder was not surprised when beautiful Lady Julia made noises like "a thin bat's squeak of sexuality" and became engaged to a rich Canadian, who gave her a tortoise with her initials set in diamonds on its shell. He was not surprised when his good friend Sebastian took to drinking on the sly. "My dear, such a sot," said Anthony Blanche. "Sip sip, sip like a dowager, all day." But when Ryder visited Brideshead, the magnificent family mansion, he was astonished to find that "religion predominated in the house," that the family diversified its sins with daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fierce Little Tragedy | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Jack Benny keeps three soundmen hopping every time he enters the mythical safe-deposit vault beneath his house. The soundmen squeak doors, blow sirens, ring bells and toot horns to further the legend of Benny's penny-pinching. Studio audiences find it sidesplitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bells & Whistles | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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