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...opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 1, 1926 | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...rollicking, nudging, back-slapping cowboys (Curly, Maricopa Bill, Stub, Pablo, Long Jo), are usually "like a band of happy children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspired Wright | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...anything that reflected the life and thought of primitive races. There were queer barbaric ornaments; shining, murderous weapons; primitive carvings. Also, he saw strange sights, saw battle and death, saw human beings stripped to aboriginal essentials of life and passion. For his own amusement, he liked to take a stub of pencil and stray sheet of paper and sketch roughly the things that interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Ugly Negroes | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...connection. Let the doubting reader verify by glancing over A Frame-Up, introduced as: "A stirring romance of the Hundred Years' War, detailing the adventures in France and Castille of a pair of well-bred weasels. The story is an example of what can be done with a stub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Contrast | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...Interscholastic track meet, the Freshman-Exeter baseball game, and the Harvard-Yale Freshman track meet, all scheduled for Soldiers Field this afternoon, may be obtained at the H. A. A. or at the field for 50 cents. Section 23 of the Stadium will be reserved for Harvard men and stub 17 of the H. A. A. book may be exchanged for seats in that section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. TICKET BOOK WILL ADMIT TO ALL EVENTS TODAY | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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