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...fruit was a cranberry and have served up apple pies with innocent impunity. Adam proves to be inept at naming the animals, and the simian creature that he dibs "flounder" has to be fended off with a barbed wire fence. Instead of Satan, SIN features a lithe delinquent called Ssss, who is bad in a soulful rather than a derogatory way. When man's ancestor decides that a maid is more desirable than a mate, the first woman indulges in an illicit love affair with Ssss, multiplying and acquiring the name of Evil (presumably the derivation...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cranapples | 5/17/1977 | See Source »

Keith Avery's Ssss is too adept at languishing and might fade away altogether if it weren't for the glowing tip of his cigarette and the intriguing pattern of color stroked over his body...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cranapples | 5/17/1977 | See Source »

...Mamie Eisenhower, reported her husband to a friend, is all out for Richard Nixon because she likes Pat. "Why," said Ike with a rocketing arm motion, "when Mamie thinks of Jackie Kennedy in the White House she goes 'Ssss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Sep. 5, 1960 | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

Last week President Wark got up to talk in chapel. From heads, reverently bowed, from mouths buried in hymn books, veiled in handkerchiefs, courteously concealed by immobility and cupped fingers, rose a sound. "H-s-s-ssss." Dr. Wark paid no attention. Ear- lier in the morning a janitor had cut down a straw effigy, bearing a distant resemblance to Dr. Wark, from the bough of a campus tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education Notes, Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: s-s-s-ss-sss-SSSS-B O O MU-Ah?! RAY! RAY! RAY! RAH-RAH RAH-RAH RAH-RAH RAH! HU-rah HU-rah HU-rah RAH I RAY! RAY! RAY! e-e-e-ee-eee-EEE- O W!! ! H. C. HINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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