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...visions of Brit Reed, alias the Green Hornet, who when adventure-bound was trailed by a string orchestra playing his tune. Do-Gooder Brit also had the only automobile on radio that ran on wasp power. The Hornet is one of the few oldies to show his age. "Sufferin' snakes!" he blurts, "that's real white of you." One mystery for modern listeners is why Kato, his faithful valet, starts out as a Japanese and winds up as a Filipino. Simple: the change of citizenship was made on Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gothic Revival | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...bearded hitchhiker aboard Huckleberry Finn's raft, "your eyes is lookin' at the very moment on the pore disappeared Daughin, Looy the Seventeen, son of Looy the Sixteen and Marry Antonette . . . You see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled trampled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lost or Found | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...military idiots." said the Sweep. ". . . Cor sufferin' wars. Cor chase old auntie Rommel round the sand 'eaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nat Gubbins | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...with sequins, which swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth, the singer swaying slightly to the rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bessie's Blues | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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