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...understood him thoroughly; they said of him proudly: 'He's a slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy Sr. "Wai," said an old man, wet with tobacco juice and furtive-eyed, "the bottom rail's on top and it's gwiner stay thar." That was Percy's "first sight of the rise of the masses, but not my last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remembrance of Things Past | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...value to the Army. He was made a Field Marshal in 1935, Commander of the Moscow District in 1937, Vice-Commissar of Defense last year. Although a past master of guerrilla warfare, when he cannot fight guerrilla-style he adopts the tactics of Confederate General Nathan Bedford ("Git-Thar-Fust-With-The-Mostest-Men") Forrest and relies on frontal assault. Military experts predicted last month, when he was first reported in charge of the offensive, that he would recklessly risk tens of thousands of men (but none of his own Cossacks). If Field Marshal Budenny rides into Helsinki this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Destroy the White Snakes! | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...aint particklar whut youre age or whuther your one uv them thar big handsum broots jest so yawr a blond. All i want is a home and sum hogs ter slop and chickens ter feed. i heerd that that thar school uv larnin reely did put out som purty good gents so i'll guarantee ya Ill do all the house work like cuttin the wood, haulin the water an milkin the knows. We shore would make a good happy pare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

...brag that she war a streak of litenin set up edgeways and buttered with quicksilver," or the cold morning when "the airth had actually friz fast in her axis, and couldn't turn around; the sun had got jammed between two cakes of ice under the wheels, an' thar he had been shinin and working to get loose, till he friz fast in his cold sweat." This work is no mere potboiler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

...Sample: When Bad Girl Dietrich slips some gold coins into her bosom, says Allen Jenkins: "Thar's gold in them thar hills." Last week the Hays office pounced on this gag after the picture's release, ordered it deleted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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