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...Suppose you were to save your country from the British or the Boers or something and had a monument erected by your friends to commemorate the fact. Would it please you to have Mazie and her boy friend taking pictures with your monument for background? Your heroic bones would squirm in the final resting place and your spirit would sock some unsuspecting medium in the seventh veil. At least, if they wouldn't, you are not fit to be called a four hundred descent Bostonian...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/8/1926 | See Source »

...have never memorized anything, Adam Baxter's remarkable reciting may make you squirm with a guilty feeling of having missed much. We felt that way for a while, but then he fell back on a hymn we've sung almost every time we've been to church, and all was well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/26/1926 | See Source »

...flagrant and even self evident! On p. 34 of your issue of Dec. 14, you say that a rat, with a "pointed grey face" fell into a Miss Rachael Galpern's "hot soap-bath"; yet a moment later you speak of the animal as "an enormous black rat!" Squirm out of that, if you can! I suppose you will say that a "black rat" can have a "grey face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1925 | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Them Squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Telegraphako! | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...tread on anyone's toes, let them squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Telegraphako! | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

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