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...Yalies have contracted with a national manufacturer for hundreds of the squirt guns, according to the News article. The students distribute the pistols to local retailers, stipulating that the guns be sold at double the usual market price...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Illicit Arms Ring Grips New Haven | 5/2/1950 | See Source »

...infield grass. Ernie's Enterprises, a St. Louis firm, announced that it had orders for 50,000 Eagle Beaks-hornrimmed spectacles with large false noses attached to them. U.S. citizens were also snapping up Miss Gorgeous Blond Fan Dancing Photos (smiles and dances before your eyes), Nature Boy Squirt Ash Trays, Hollywood Floating Cutie Doll Pencils, Goofy Eggs (won't stand still unless you know the secret) and Magic Light Bulbs (mysteriously lights while held in your hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fun for All | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

John L. Lewis, a man of vivid dislike, has no use for James Boyd. The reason is secondhand: Lewis primarily doesn't like Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, whom Lewis once described as having a "squirt mentality and a balloonized physique." So when Krug got the President to appoint Boyd director of the Bureau of Mines two years ago, Lewis blackballed Boyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Spring Mourning | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...mild-mannered T. Barton Akeley, who had been popular with his students but not with the town ("My beard, my beret. They just can't take idiosyncrasies"). When some of the students picketed in protest, Ashby was outraged. At his convocation, he promised to eliminate "termites" with a squirt of DDT (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Purge | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Washington Times-Herald's Inquiring Photographer asked several plump women about their reaction to the Too Fat Polka. Samples: 1) "I have such a little squirt of a husband someone has to have some heft around the house." 2) "I'm just well rounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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