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...stuck there, instead of falling into the coin box. Subsequent nickels piled up on top of it. Madzenski apparently had it figured out that when three nickels had been dropped on top of his penny, the last one would be near enough to the top so that he could suck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sucker's Game | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...customers have enough, and will want to start selling them back. England found this out before the First World War. Moreover, policing the world market which we want to exploit will be costly. We will fight war after war as we try to hold down the wriggling victim and suck the last drop of his blood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECLARATION OF PEACE | 11/22/1940 | See Source »

...faces and mannerisms of the characters. Each of the minor parts has received superb treatment, each one is true to a certain American type. Betty Field is magnificent as the rancher's pathetic wife, whom Lennie strangles absent-mindedly. Stroking a puppy, disgustedly watching her sensual husband suck up his food, drumming her fingers on the table in frantic boredom, she draws an unforgettable picture of the same frustration and despair of farm life to which Hamlin Garland gave anguished voice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from the whole southeastern U. S., as John Calhoun had foretold, growing to 22,000 by 1870, 89,872 by 1900. Georgians who were not Atlantans had a saying: "If the folks in Atlanta could suck as hard as they can blow, they would suck the ocean up to their city limits and have a harbor!" At its vital crossroad, inland Atlanta actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...wind to suck...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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