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...know there's a big temptation when you get a little white space to become deafened by the thunder of your own thoughts. I've seen it happen to a lot of guys, and I'm not saying it can't happen to me. . . . Nineteen columns out of 20 I expect to be peddling that ever-lovin' popcorn and doing my old soft shoe dance. But every so often, when I feel like hollering, I'm going to stand up on my hind legs and holler. I'm not saying my palaverings rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rose, Palaverer | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

While all Cambridge peeled off clothing and waited for the promised thunder-showers yesterday evening, the U. S. Weather Bureau was forecasting for today the first break in the sweltering heat wave which has held the Boston area in its grip since Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Strips To Beat Heat; Cooler Today | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...made light of the crisis. Portly Duclos was at his wittiest. He urged that the workers' wages be boosted at the expense of employers' profits. Said he: "You know, it is a mistake to think that the principle of profit-taking was established on Mount Sinai, amid thunder and lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crisis | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Battle of the Parties. Last June, the Christian Democratic Party, Communism's strongest enemy, polled over eight million votes. But it slowly dissipated this advantage by failing to carry out any of its promised social reforms, by letting the Communists steal its thunder on every major issue (such as the Lateran Pact), and by being just plain badly organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...number of appropriate songs were sung.... The greatest order and harmony were observed." But constant mixing of song and sonata had its drawbacks, and in 1858 the Glee Club broke away, leaving its parent organization to roam its scales alone, accompanied with such comments as "met and played like thunder...met, practiced, liquored and adjourned." Castigations of certain instruments were a common thing for "even the cello...persisted in being obstinate and unruly. Altogether...a shameful meeting." "Few of us...will forget the pathetic strains of the bassoon...or the complaining notes of the squeaking flutes, interrupted as they were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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