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...said archy he took a swipe at me with a rolled up newspaper. he knocked over a table and a nice lamp, so they threw him out of there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wherein Archy Is Pursued by A Lad in the Harvard Club | 1/30/1947 | See Source »

...when you can find it. Some of the boys used to swipe quarts of milk and then go to the gas station to beg gasoline for a spike. Milk isn't left on doorsteps any more. It costs 20? a quart and the jerks at the gas stations ain't very friendly any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Hard Times on Skid Row | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

A.P.H. was never better. His satiric jingles had a near-Gilbertian nip & skip. After his first jab, a hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The swollen octopus, the State That fills our stomachs well enough But robs the soul of precious stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Ben Strikes | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Washington's National Airport she murmured, "I christen you the U.S. Capitol" and smartly swung a scored, netcovered* bottle of domestic champagne against the shiny nose of an Army C-54 hospital plane. Nothing happened. Pursing her lips, Bess Truman struck again, a backhand swipe. There were nervous titters. After nine determined tries the plane's nose was dented, the bottle still unbroken. Bess Truman passed it to an Air Forces major; when he failed to break it the party admitted defeat, moved on to christen a Navy plane with another bottle. There, on Mrs. Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Champagne & Tea | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Last week he outdid himself with a full-page swipe at (and in) the pro-Roosevelt New York Times. The Republican National Committee paid the Times $2,760 to run it as a political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moses' Masterpiece | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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