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...Where's Mr. McKay's cottage?" cried Challengee Wales. The white-faced, starveling villagers pointed. He climbed the muddy stoop, rapped on the sleasy door. "Come in!" cried a child's voice, and H. R. H. entered to find two weeping little girls beside the bed of a grey-haired woman who lay stark and motionless. "Dead!" croaked a villager, "Starved?an' Old Frank 'as gone for 'er coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This is Ghastly! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...very tall, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, unexpectedly assumed last week a somewhat malignant role, as he strove to grasp powers verging on the dictatorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Three-Room President | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...FRONT PAGE-A savagely melodramatic comedy of Chicago police-court reporters who stoop to scoop and who are masters of the retort curt (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Cohen's letter. Several perusals of it have yielded no basis for a conclusion, except that it is a specimen of "mud-slinging" and a poor one at that. The statements couched in magnificent sarcasm, are ridiculous in their gross exaggeration, and for that reason it is needless to stoop to refute any of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Antiphonal | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...worth to them all they pay for it. Business is a two car train. Salesman Smith is selling seats in his car, and advertises the added attraction of a rack for the hip flash on the side of the bench to obviate the necessity of having to stoop down to get it from under the bench; otherwise, business might as well ride in the Republican car. It doesn't make much difference anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORMAN THOMAS FLAYS PARTIES | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

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