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...hell of a lot of country to get here. . . . Came over Palestine-Jericho, where the walls came tumbling down. I ought to make a good Sunday-School teacher when I get back and I think I will. . . . Met General Chennault day before yesterday and he sure is a swell egg. . . . We're the first of the P-38s over here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Sky Pilot | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Syntax. In his spare time, Rowlandson became a great London swell. Extra money for gambling debts could the always be leading had print from publisher Rudolph of the Ackermann, time. For Ackermann, Rowlandson illustrated the popular satirical picture book Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. (Today a Rowlandson-illustrated first edition has brought as much as $3,100 from book collectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ribald Rowly | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts may feel that one of life's more solemn mysteries is sold at cut rate by Claudia's magnificat when she finds she is about to have a baby: "God is swell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Youse guys is the nuts. Espetchilly I likes de swell way youse wrestles the Englitch langwitch. Your form and style is de best...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flangs and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/10/1943 | See Source »

...Lamartine had kicked up a rumpus: the Review mailbag began to swell. A doctor wrote in to complain that the use of hatpins "is an actual and potential hazard to the health of our female population" because scalp abrasions invite invasion by the "bacillus Welchii." A poesy-minded lady in Los Angeles wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tale of a Hat | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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