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...suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Skeptics. In Vancouver, B.C., when prosecution witness Maxime Bertrand refused to swear on the Bible because he was an agnostic, Magistrate Mackenzie Matheson retorted: "Then I refuse to hear your evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...King Michael's last major acts before he abdicated, 2½ years later, was to swear in Zvi Rabinsohn's daughter as his Foreign Minister. That was during Soviet-Rumanian Friendship Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...week, when she has taken her walk to the Nieuwe Kerk, Juliana will be inaugurated (she will not be crowned, because the truculently democratic Dutch do not like their monarchs actually to wear the crown, which is considered the property of the state, not of the monarch). Juliana will swear to "protect the general and individual freedom . . . the general and individual prosperity ... as it is the duty of a good Queen to do." Then the chairman of the Joint Session of the States-General will, on behalf of the sovereign people, pronounce the proud and wary formula: "By virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Woman Who Wanted a Smile | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Sign of the Horns. Captured by the post-atom Californians, Poole is condemned by the Chief of the Californians to be buried "alive or dead ... as you like," but when he promises to teach the barbarians something about science, he is grudgingly let off-on condition that he swear by "Almighty Belial" and make "the sign of the horns." For in lower California during the 22nd Century, Belial, the devil himself, rules; his victory over "the Other One" was consolidated in Atomic War, though his battle for power began centuries before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & the Deep Blue Huxley | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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